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Kjerstin

Girls' name

Form of Christina

Kjerstin has been given to 248 babies in the U.S. since 1970. 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 14 recorded.

Babies named Kjerstin, 2018

1 in 703,000

Kjerstin over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Kjerstin: meaning, origin, and history

Form of Christina

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Kjerstin means

Kjerstin is a form of Christina.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Kjerstin is used in Norwegian and Swedish.

Meaning behind the documented name family

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

Origin, language, and formation

Kjerstin is used in Norwegian.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Christina, Kristine and Kerstin.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 248 girls were recorded with the name Kjerstin between 1970 and 2018. Its highest annual count was 14 in 1991; its best national rank was #6,427 in 1991.

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 Kjerstin?

Kjerstin had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2018, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2018
1 in 703,000
5 of 3,516,853 births
Among girls only
1 in 340,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2018
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
487,541 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Kjerstin 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 2018 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 487,541 children born in 2018 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Kjerstin. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Kjerstins were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Kjerstin was born before 1995 — so the typical Kjerstin is around 30 today.

Median birth year
1995
About 30 years old
Biggest decade
1980s
25.8% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
55.2%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
248
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1980s — 25.8% of all recorded uses (64).

Is Kjerstin 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 1991 (14)
Years since peak
34
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
46.6% average annual change
Best rank ever
#6,427
1991

Spellings of Kjerstin

Kjerstin is not the most common spelling — Kiersten is, with 40.7% against Kjerstin's 0.68%.

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 Kjerstin is used

Across 1910–2025, Kjerstin was most concentrated in Minnesota — about 1 in 100,000 girls, against 1 in 185,105 across all states with data.

11 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Minnesota1 in 100,000

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

Kjerstin around the world

Where Kjerstin 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.

  • Norway
    1880–2002
    #589
    in 2002

Popularity data from Statistics Norway. SSB data under CC BY 4.0.

Kjerstin 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
#6,427
1991
Peak year
1991
14 that year
First recorded
1970
Last recorded
2018
All-time count
248
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Kjerstin

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

KjerstenKjerstiKeirstinBrittinCrystinKhristinTrystinQuentinKeerstinKearstinDestinKurstinChastinPeytinChrystinCurstinAnnastinPaytinKyrstinWestinKierstinSatinAstinKhrystin

Sibling names for Kjerstin

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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