Kiersten
Feminine · “follower of Christ”
Kiersten is overwhelmingly a girls’ name — 14,809 girls against 5 boys since 1880.
Kiersten is a Scandinavian form of Christina, and the Greek behind it means one who belongs to the anointed one.
How old is the name Kiersten?
Kiersten first appears in US birth records in 1963 — 62 years ago. The typical Kiersten alive today was born around 2000, making them about 25 years old. About 14,500 people named Kiersten are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Kiersten most popular?
Kiersten peaked in 1996, reaching #422 nationally. Today it ranks #4661, 4,239 places below that high. See the whole 1996 chart.
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Where it comes from
Origin, sound and short forms
Our story of Kiersten
Ours, offered as ours. Kirsten is Christina with two sounds swapped — the r jumping in front of the s — which is the same metathesis that turned Old English hros into horse and brid into bird. Scandinavian did it to this name and English kept the result when it borrowed it back. So Kiersten and Christina are the same word, one of them with its letters quietly rearranged eight centuries ago.
Meaning
follower of Christ
From Greek christos, anointed, translating Hebrew mashiach; Christina is the feminine of Christianus. Danish and Norwegian wore it down to Kirsten, with the r and s changing places.
Pronouncing Kiersten
KEER-sten
Two syllables, first stressed. Some families say KUR-sten.
Nicknames for Kiersten
Moderate
What the data says
146 years of official birth records
The long climb, and where it stands now
The same years in position rather than babies
- First recorded
- 1963
- Most girls named
- 2005662 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #422reached in 1996
- Change vs 2024
- −23.7%29 in 2025, from 38
Rank is a position, a count is a headcount, and they move independently — a name can hold its rank while the number of babies behind it falls. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration.
Kiersten in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Kirsten in Danish — spelling variant
- Kjerstin in Norwegian — same name
- Christina in English — related form
Strongest US states over the last decade: Georgia, Texas, Ohio.
Kierstens among us
people named Kiersten are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 girl in 55,423 born in 2025 was named Kiersten
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Is it right for you
What happens to a name after it peaks
The Lashawn test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Kiersten's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Lashawn climbed just as high around 1972, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Lashawn's path sketches the road Kiersten is walking now.
Kiersten sits in the calm middle of the cycle — neither chasing a wave nor sliding off one. Middle-of-the-cycle names age slowly and predictably.
A scored estimate from 146 years of naming cycles — not a prophecy. Great names outlive statistics. How this is scored
Where Kiersten is headed
Kiersten is easing off slowly — about 21% fewer babies a year by 2030 if the trend continues.
Medium confidence — fitted on official counts through 2025.
A damped-trend projection of the official birth data — a sketch of momentum, not a promise. Every name's forecast, ranked.
Kiersten beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Kiersten in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US girls given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- A settled meaning with a very large European name family behind it.
- Kiki and Kier are both ready short forms.
- Read correctly by English speakers once they have seen it once.
- Kirsten and Kiersten are both in use and get confused constantly.
- The first vowel is unsettled between KEER and KUR.
- Eight letters and two syllables makes for a long word to write.
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Frequently asked
- How many Kierstens are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 14,500 people named Kiersten are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Kiersten in 2025?
- Kiersten ranks #4661 among US girl names in 2025, with 29 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Kiersten?
- About 1 in every 55,423 US girls born in 2025 was named Kiersten — 29 in all.
- Will my child share the name Kiersten with classmates?
- Kiersten will almost certainly be the only one in school.
Ranked beside Kiersten
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