Karsten
- #14,942 for girls in 2025, 5 births
- #4,139 for boys in 2025, 25 births
- Given to boys 95.0% of the time
Showing
- Peak · boys
- 2001 · 107 births
- Debut · boys
- 6 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 3,252since 1950
Karsten over time
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Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
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| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #14,942 | 5 | #4,139 | 25 |
| 2024 | — | #3,896 | 28 | |
| 2023 | — | #4,002 | 27 | |
| 2022 | — | #4,303 | 24 | |
| 2021 | — | #2,918 | 42 | |
| 2020 | — | #3,811 | 27 | |
| 2019 | #15,539 | 5 | #2,001 | 73 |
| 2018 | #15,682 | 5 | #2,230 | 61 |
| 2017 | — | #2,170 | 62 | |
| 2016 | — | #1,903 | 77 | |
| 2015 | — | #2,036 | 70 | |
| 2014 | — | #1,730 | 87 | |
| 2013 | #13,150 | 7 | #1,563 | 100 |
| 2012 | #16,869 | 5 | #1,478 | 109 |
| 2011 | #13,347 | 7 | #1,448 | 113 |
| 2010 | #16,992 | 5 | #1,284 | 135 |
| 2009 | #12,429 | 8 | #1,562 | 104 |
| 2008 | #11,599 | 9 | #1,504 | 108 |
| 2007 | #17,636 | 5 | #1,341 | 125 |
| 2006 | #12,420 | 8 | #1,273 | 131 |
| 2005 | #14,502 | 6 | #1,315 | 115 |
| 2004 | #8,716 | 12 | #1,292 | 115 |
| 2003 | #8,505 | 12 | #1,381 | 97 |
| 2002 | #12,187 | 7 | #1,498 | 84 |
| 2001 | — | #1,242 | 107 | |
| 2000 | #15,031 | 5 | #1,314 | 98 |
| 1999 | #9,479 | 9 | #1,604 | 67 |
| 1998 | — | #1,642 | 63 | |
| 1997 | #6,844 | 13 | #1,836 | 51 |
| 1996 | #9,581 | 8 | #1,785 | 51 |
| 1995 | #8,079 | 10 | #1,430 | 69 |
| 1994 | #11,778 | 6 | #1,851 | 46 |
| 1993 | — | #2,295 | 33 | |
| 1992 | #13,317 | 5 | #1,914 | 42 |
| 1991 | — | #1,798 | 44 | |
| 1990 | — | #2,214 | 32 | |
| 1989 | #12,362 | 5 | #2,615 | 24 |
| 1988 | — | #1,909 | 34 | |
| 1987 | — | #2,725 | 19 | |
| 1986 | — | #2,007 | 29 | |
| 1985 | — | #2,942 | 16 | |
| 1984 | — | #3,270 | 13 | |
| 1983 | — | #3,071 | 14 | |
| 1982 | — | #2,596 | 18 | |
| 1981 | — | #2,138 | 24 | |
| 1980 | — | #2,444 | 20 | |
| 1979 | — | #2,157 | 23 | |
| 1978 | — | #1,616 | 34 | |
| 1977 | — | #1,904 | 26 | |
| 1976 | — | #1,572 | 34 | |
| 1975 | — | #1,884 | 25 | |
| 1974 | — | #1,832 | 25 | |
| 1973 | — | #1,736 | 26 | |
| 1972 | #8,292 | 5 | #1,819 | 24 |
| 1971 | — | #1,637 | 29 | |
| 1970 | — | #1,374 | 37 | |
| 1969 | — | #1,680 | 24 | |
| 1968 | — | #2,576 | 11 | |
| 1967 | — | #2,242 | 13 | |
| 1966 | — | #2,327 | 12 | |
| 1965 | — | #2,476 | 11 | |
| 1964 | — | #3,050 | 8 | |
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| 1962 | — | #4,033 | 5 | |
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| 1960 | — | #2,210 | 14 | |
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| 1958 | — | #3,275 | 7 | |
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| 1954 | — | #3,827 | 5 | |
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| 1950 | — | #3,329 | 6 | |
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First appearance
1950
The first year at least five boys were named Karsten! It came in at #3,329, and was given to 6 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1951–1957, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
Where Karsten is popular in 2025
No state had 5 or more boys named Karsten in 2025, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.
See more about Karsten
Momentum · boys
Holding steady
- 328 spots since 2020 (#3,811 → #4,139)
Rise & fade · boys
51 yrs to peak
- Debuted 1950
- Peaked 2001 at #1,242 (107 births)
- Births halved by 2020, 19 yrs later
Top of the charts · boys
Never in the top 1,000
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
Share of babies · boys
1 in 14,212
- Highest: 1 in 14,212 boys born in 2010 were named Karsten (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 68,323 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
- Its best rank, #1,242 in 2001, was only 1 in 18,158 (0.01%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
Era · boys
The 2000s
- 33.3% of all boys named Karsten (1,084) were born in this decade
Girls or boys?
Never flipped
- The majority has never changed
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1950s | 18 | #3,275 (1958) | #3,477 |
| 1960s | 98 | #1,680 (1969) | #2,574 |
| 1970s | 283 | #1,374 (1970) | #1,753 |
| 1980s | 211 | #1,909 (1988) | #2,572 |
| 1990s | 498 | #1,430 (1995) | #1,837 |
| 2000s | 1,084 | #1,242 (2001) | #1,372 |
| 2010s | 887 | #1,284 (2010) | #1,784 |
| 2020s | 173 | #2,918 (2021) | #3,845 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
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