girls:
53.1k births since 1937
#557 (90th percentile)
boys:
212 births since 1963
#4374 (5th percentile)
overall:
53.3k births since 1937
#1039 (87th percentile)
The name Kirsten is the #1,039 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 53,280 recorded births since 1937. This represents the 86.6% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 86.6% of all names). For girls, it ranks #557 (90.3% percentile) for all time with 53,068 births since 1937. For boys, it ranks #4,374 (4.6% percentile) for all time with 212 births since 1963.
Kirsten first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1937 (1937 for girls and 1963 for boys).
The name Kirsten has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 99.6% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Kirsten reached its peak popularity in 1991, achieving the 82.1% percentile (ranked #153) with 950 births per million. The name was most common in 1991, with 950 births per million (ranked 82.1% percentile). Despite a low point in 1997, the name has seen a recent decline in popularity for girls. Currently, Kirsten ranks #917 for girls (3.2% percentile) with 20 births per million, which is 2.1% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Kirsten reached its peak popularity in 1989, achieving the 1.2% percentile (ranked #748) with 5 births per million. The name was most common in 1978, with 8 births per million (ranked 1.2% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 2004.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Kirsten".
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Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Kirsten. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 58.5% confident that Kirsten is pronounced as KER-stuhn, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is KIHR-stuhn, at 41.5% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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