girls:
4.2k births since 1950
#2671 (53rd percentile)
overall:
4.2k births since 1950
#4249 (45th percentile)
The name Kirstie is the #4,249 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 4,151 recorded births since 1950. This represents the 45.1% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 45.1% of all names). For girls, it ranks #2,671 (53.3% percentile) for all time with 4,151 births since 1950.
Kirstie first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1950 (first recorded for girls in 1950). Birth data for Kirstie is available in 58 out of the 62 years between 1950 and 2011. The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
For girls, Kirstie reached its peak popularity in 1991, achieving the 56.5% percentile (ranked #370) with 312 births per million. The name was most common in 1991, with 312 births per million (ranked 56.5% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2011.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Kirstie".
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Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Kirstie. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 90.5% confident that Kirstie is pronounced as KER-stee, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is KIHR-stee, at 9.5% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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