Kiersten
#4,661 for girls in 2025, 29 births · Last seen for boys in 1997 at #9,265
Given to girls >99.9% of the time
- Peak · girls
- 1996 · 603 births
- Debut · girls
- 18 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 14,809since 1963
Kiersten over time
Rank among girls' names. Kiersten has never cracked the top 400 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #4,661 | 29 | — | |
| 2024 | #3,892 | 38 | — | |
| 2023 | #3,640 | 42 | — | |
| 2022 | #4,041 | 36 | — | |
| 2021 | #2,892 | 58 | — | |
| 2020 | #2,682 | 62 | — | |
| 2019 | #2,508 | 70 | — | |
| 2018 | #2,207 | 84 | — | |
| 2017 | #1,964 | 101 | — | |
| 2016 | #1,841 | 112 | — | |
| 2015 | #1,399 | 167 | — | |
| 2014 | #1,275 | 188 | — | |
| 2013 | #1,242 | 192 | — | |
| 2012 | #1,148 | 215 | — | |
| 2011 | #885 | 295 | — | |
| 2010 | #840 | 319 | — | |
| 2009 | #776 | 366 | — | |
| 2008 | #658 | 465 | — | |
| 2007 | #589 | 508 | — | |
| 2006 | #512 | 592 | — | |
| 2005 | #460 | 662 | — | |
| 2004 | #455 | 660 | — | |
| 2003 | #485 | 602 | — | |
| 2002 | #479 | 586 | — | |
| 2001 | #487 | 573 | — | |
| 2000 | #443 | 638 | — | |
| 1999 | #487 | 532 | — | |
| 1998 | #459 | 562 | — | |
| 1997 | #457 | 550 | #9,265 | 5 |
| 1996 | #422 | 603 | — | |
| 1995 | #461 | 547 | — | |
| 1994 | #519 | 481 | — | |
| 1993 | #513 | 478 | — | |
| 1992 | #571 | 408 | — | |
| 1991 | #573 | 405 | — | |
| 1990 | #620 | 362 | — | |
| 1989 | #692 | 293 | — | |
| 1988 | #880 | 200 | — | |
| 1987 | #1,052 | 146 | — | |
| 1986 | #1,136 | 127 | — | |
| 1985 | #1,185 | 119 | — | |
| 1984 | #1,475 | 78 | — | |
| 1983 | #1,629 | 68 | — | |
| 1982 | #1,653 | 69 | — | |
| 1981 | #1,315 | 96 | — | |
| 1980 | #2,069 | 50 | — | |
| 1979 | #1,569 | 73 | — | |
| 1978 | #1,434 | 80 | — | |
| 1977 | #1,774 | 57 | — | |
| 1976 | #1,677 | 58 | — | |
| 1975 | #1,350 | 79 | — | |
| 1974 | #1,334 | 79 | — | |
| 1973 | #1,329 | 76 | — | |
| 1972 | #1,473 | 65 | — | |
| 1971 | #1,405 | 75 | — | |
| 1970 | #1,330 | 79 | — | |
| 1969 | #1,499 | 62 | — | |
| 1968 | #1,459 | 60 | — | |
| 1967 | #1,881 | 39 | — | |
| 1966 | #2,308 | 27 | — | |
| 1965 | #2,833 | 19 | — | |
| 1964 | #2,246 | 29 | — | |
| 1963 | #2,960 | 18 | — | |
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The first year at least five girls were named Kiersten! It came in at #2,960, and was given to 18 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1963, when fewer than 19 girls a year got the name.
Where Kiersten is popular in 2008
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- West Virginia#247 · 1 in 984
- Kentucky#277 · 1 in 1,264
- Arkansas#288 · 1 in 1,111
- Alabama#290 · 1 in 1,234
- Indiana#312 · 1 in 1,413
Best ever in a state: #107 in West Virginia, 2005.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| West Virginia | #247 | 7 | 1 in 984 |
| Kentucky | #277 | 16 | 1 in 1,264 |
| Arkansas | #288 | 11 | 1 in 1,111 |
| Alabama | #290 | 17 | 1 in 1,234 |
| Indiana | #312 | 23 | 1 in 1,413 |
| Ohio | #314 | 34 | 1 in 1,659 |
| Mississippi | #360 | 9 | 1 in 1,387 |
| Tennessee | #414 | 16 | 1 in 2,012 |
| Connecticut | #448 | 6 | 1 in 2,168 |
| Kansas | #461 | 7 | 1 in 1,976 |
| Florida | #478 | 34 | 1 in 2,532 |
| Virginia | #481 | 16 | 1 in 2,351 |
| Maryland | #482 | 11 | 1 in 2,298 |
| Pennsylvania | #497 | 21 | 1 in 2,635 |
| Georgia | #518 | 21 | 1 in 2,515 |
| North Carolina | #542 | 18 | 1 in 2,671 |
| South Carolina | #542 | 8 | 1 in 2,400 |
| New York | #569 | 32 | 1 in 2,985 |
| Missouri | #575 | 10 | 1 in 2,943 |
| Michigan | #612 | 13 | 1 in 3,420 |
| Wisconsin | #657 | 7 | 1 in 3,579 |
| Louisiana | #706 | 6 | 1 in 3,371 |
| Minnesota | #744 | 6 | 1 in 4,293 |
| Utah | #753 | 5 | 1 in 3,955 |
| Oklahoma | #761 | 5 | 1 in 3,488 |
| Washington | #764 | 8 | 1 in 4,018 |
| Massachusetts | #841 | 5 | 1 in 5,444 |
| Texas | #907 | 31 | 1 in 5,410 |
| New Jersey | #1,028 | 6 | 1 in 6,548 |
| Illinois | #1,057 | 10 | 1 in 6,622 |
| Arizona | #1,209 | 5 | 1 in 7,299 |
| California | #2,053 | 12 | 1 in 19,112 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the girls born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
See more about Kiersten
- 769 spots since 2024 (#3,892 → #4,661)
- 1,979 spots since 2020 (#2,682 → #4,661)
- 3,262 spots since 2015 (#1,399 → #4,661)
- Biggest jump: 188 spots in 1989 (#880 → #692)
- Biggest drop: 263 spots in 2012 (#885 → #1,148)
- Debuted 1963
- Peaked 1996 at #422 (603 births)
- Births halved by 2011, 15 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 24 yrs · run 1988–2011
- Highest: 1 in 2,782 girls born in 2004 were named Kiersten (0.04%)
- Latest: 1 in 55,423 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
- Its best rank, #422 in 1996, was only 1 in 2,907 (0.03%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 38.2% of all girls named Kiersten (5,652) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 254 | #1,459 (1968) | #2,169 |
| 1970s | 721 | #1,329 (1973) | #1,468 |
| 1980s | 1,246 | #692 (1989) | #1,309 |
| 1990s | 4,928 | #422 (1996) | #508 |
| 2000s | 5,652 | #443 (2000) | #534 |
| 2010s | 1,743 | #840 (2010) | #1,531 |
| 2020s | 265 | #2,682 (2020) | #3,635 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Kiersten in 2008
Top girls' names in 2008
More about 2008
girls
1,890,938 girls got a published name in 2008; 1 in 4,067 of them was named Kiersten, which outranked 96.8% of the 20,482 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.5% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).