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Kirstin

Girls' name

Form of Christina

Kirstin has been given to 8,778 babies in the U.S. since 1942. 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 1990, with 413 recorded.

Babies named Kirstin, 2023

1 in 663,000

Kirstin over time, 1880–2025

Girls
020040060018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Kirstin: meaning, origin, and history

Form of Christina

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Kirstin means

Kirstin is a form of Christina.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Kirstin is used in Scottish.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Kirstin → Christina. The family’s meaning is “Christian (woman)”, recorded in English with the source elements Chrīstiāna.

Origin, language, and formation

Kirstin is used in Faroese.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Christina.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 8,778 girls were recorded with the name Kirstin between 1942 and 2023. Its highest annual count was 413 in 1990; its best national rank was #563 in 1990.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Kirstin?

Kirstin had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2023, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2023
1 in 663,000
5 of 3,314,783 births
Among girls only
1 in 321,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2023
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
459,528 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Kirstin 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 2023 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 459,528 children born in 2023 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Kirstin. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Kirstins were born

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

Median birth year
1990
About 35 years old
Biggest decade
1990s
35.4% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
20.6%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
8,767
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1990s — 35.4% of all recorded uses (3,108).

Is Kirstin 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
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1990 (413)
Years since peak
35
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
21.3% average annual change
Best rank ever
#563
1990

Spellings of Kirstin

Kirstin is not the most common spelling — Kristin is, with 63.2% against Kirstin's 3.1%.

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 Kirstin is used

Across 1910–2025, Kirstin was most concentrated in Minnesota — about 1 in 10,000 girls, against 1 in 24,834 across all states with data. It was least common in West Virginia (1 in —).

010 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Minnesota1 in 10,000
  2. 2Washington1 in 12,500
  3. 3California1 in 16,667
  4. 4Colorado1 in 16,667
  5. 5Indiana1 in 16,667
  6. 6Oregon1 in 16,667
  7. 7Wisconsin1 in 16,667
  8. 8Florida1 in 20,000

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. Kirstin has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Kirstin around the world

Where Kirstin 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
    1996–2009
    #2,759
    in 2009
  • Scotland
    1974–2018
    #809
    in 2018
  • Northern Ireland
    1997–2004
    #273
    in 2004
  • Ireland
    1988–2010
    #910
    in 2010
  • Canada
    1991–2010
    #2,833
    in 2010
  • South Australia
    1961–1998
    #710
    in 1998

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 Kirstin

People whose public names include Kirstin, 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.

Kirstin in other languages

Cross-language forms and variants of Kirstin. Linked forms have their own page here.

Kirstyn

Variant forms from Wikidata (CC0). Most are used mainly outside the United States; U.S. birth records statistics cover US usage only.

Kirstin 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
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Best rank ever
#563
1990
Peak year
1990
413 that year
First recorded
1942
Last recorded
2023
All-time count
8,778
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Kirstin

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

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Names with a curve like Kirstin

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

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Sibling names for Kirstin

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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