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Kirstie

Girls' name

A Christian person, a Christian, through Kirsty

Kirstie has been given to 4,151 babies in the U.S. since 1950. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1991, with 635 recorded.

Babies named Kirstie, 2011

1 in 732,000

Kirstie over time, 1880–2025

Girls
020040060080018801900192019401960198020002020

Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Kirstie: meaning, origin, and history

A Christian person, a Christian, through Kirsty

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Kirstie means

Kirstie belongs to the name family reached through Kirstie → Kirsty → Christine → Christine → Chrīstiāna. Its meaning is “a Christian person, a Christian”.

Dictionary etymologyReferences, data & attribution

A 20th-century variant of Kirsty, a form of Christina.

Excerpt from Wiktionary: Kirstie (English) · CC BY-SA 4.0

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Origin, language, and formation

Kirstie is used in English.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Kirsty, Christina, Kristine, Christine and Chrīstiāna.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 4,151 girls were recorded with the name Kirstie between 1950 and 2011. Its highest annual count was 635 in 1991; its best national rank was #401 in 1991.

How common is Kirstie?

Kirstie had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2011, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2011
1 in 732,000
5 of 3,657,935 births
Among girls only
1 in 352,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2011
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
507,099 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Kirstie sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2011 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 507,099 children born in 2011 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Kirstie. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Kirsties were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Kirstie was born before 1990 — so the typical Kirstie is around 35 today.

Median birth year
1990
About 35 years old
Biggest decade
1990s
59.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
72.8%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
4,151
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1990s — 59.0% of all recorded uses (2,450).

Is Kirstie rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
—
Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
—
Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1991 (635)
Years since peak
34
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
31.2% average annual change
Best rank ever
#401
1991

Spellings of Kirstie

Kirstie is not the most common spelling — Kirsten is, with 43.4% against Kirstie's 3.4%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Kirstie is used

Across 1910–2025, Kirstie was most concentrated in California — about 1 in 33,333 girls, against 1 in 59,245 across all states with data. It was least common in Connecticut (1 in —).

03 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in 33,333
  2. 2Colorado1 in 33,333
  3. 3Louisiana1 in 33,333
  4. 4Arizona1 in 50,000
  5. 5Florida1 in 50,000
  6. 6Georgia1 in 50,000
  7. 7Indiana1 in 50,000
  8. 8Kansas1 in 50,000

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Kirstie has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Kirstie around the world

Where Kirstie ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    1996–2017
    #5,765
    in 2017
  • Scotland
    1974–2014
    #802
    in 2014
  • Northern Ireland
    1997–2001
    #343
    in 2001
  • Ireland
    1987–2012
    #907
    in 2012
  • Canada
    1991–1998
    #2,038
    in 1998
  • South Australia
    1956–2009
    #535
    in 2009

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency, Central Statistics Office, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS, NISRA data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Notable people named Kirstie

People whose public names include Kirstie, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Kirstie by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#401
1991
Peak year
1991
635 that year
First recorded
1950
Last recorded
2011
All-time count
4,151
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Kirstie

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

KirbyScottieKirstynKirraKirstinJettieKiranKattieKirstenDottieKirahLettieCristieBertieMartieMyrtieKirstanKirstiKristieKirstyEttieMittieKiriKittie

Names with a curve like Kirstie

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Kirstie, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

ShaniquaIeshaShaniceKanishaDevanShanaeAnjelicaJalisaKelceyShanieceChelsiShawnee

Sibling names for Kirstie

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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