girls:
14.7k births since 1963
#1262 (78th percentile)
boys:
5 births since 1997
#4581 (0th percentile)
overall:
14.7k births since 1963
#2164 (72nd percentile)
The name Kiersten is the #2,164 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 14,746 recorded births since 1963. This represents the 72.0% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 72.0% of all names). For girls, it ranks #1,262 (77.9% percentile) for all time with 14,741 births since 1963. For boys, it ranks #4,581 (0.0% percentile) for all time with 5 births since 1997.
Kiersten first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1963 (1963 for girls and 1997 for boys).
The name Kiersten has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 100.0% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Kiersten reached its peak popularity in 2005, achieving the 55.4% percentile (ranked #419) with 326 births per million. The name was most common in 2004, with 327 births per million (ranked 55.2% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 2005, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Kiersten ranks #910 for girls (3.9% percentile) with 24 births per million, which is 7.3% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Kiersten reached its peak popularity in 1997, achieving the 0.0% percentile (ranked #792) with 3 births per million. The name was most common in 1997, with 3 births per million (ranked 0.0% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 1997.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Kiersten".
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Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Kiersten. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 77.8% confident that Kiersten is pronounced as KIHR-stuhn, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is KEAR-stuhn, at 22.2% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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