Kirsten
2025 SSA
About Kirsten
Lovely, authentic name -- but any Kirsten will be condemned to a lifetime of hearing "Did you say Kristen?" They're both genuine Scandinavian names but too interchangeable.
Pronounced KIR-stun.
As of October 2026, Kirsten ranked #2841 in US births in 2025 SSA, peaked at #154 in 1991.
Popularity & trends
Data table
| Year | US rank | Births | Per million |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | #1,297 | 184 | 103 |
| 2015 | #1,723 | 122 | 68.3 |
| 2016 | #1,513 | 150 | 84.6 |
| 2017 | #1,896 | 107 | 62 |
| 2018 | #2,140 | 89 | 52.3 |
| 2019 | #2,803 | 60 | 35.7 |
| 2020 | #2,484 | 70 | 43.3 |
| 2021 | #2,941 | 57 | 34.7 |
| 2022 | #2,736 | 63 | 38.4 |
| 2023 | #4,153 | 35 | 21.8 |
| 2024 | #3,134 | 51 | 31.5 |
| 2025 | #2,841 | 60 | 37.3 |
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Kirsten on lists
Famous Kirstens
- Kirsten Caroline Dunst
American actress
- Kirsten Elizabeth Rutnik Gillibrand
U.S. Senator from New York
- Kirsten Renee Storms
American actress
- Kirsten Haglund
Miss America 2008
- Kirsten Simone Vangsness
American actress
- Kirsten Nelson
American actress
- Kirsten "Flipper" Flipkens
Belgian tennis player
- Kirsten Wild
Dutch cyclist
- Kirsten Blythe Painter
an American poet and author
- Kirsten Målfrid Flagstad
Norwegian operatic soprano
- Kirsten Moore
Towers, Canadian Olympic pair skater
- Kirsten Wall
Canadian curler
Kirsten in pop culture
- Kirsten Cohen
character on TV's "The O.C."
- Kirsten Larson
character in the 'American Girl' series
- Kirsten Greene
character in "Just Listen" by Sarah Dessen
- Kirsten Bennett
character on TV's "Party of Five"
- Kirsten Johannsen
character in "Number The Stars" by Lois Lowry
- Kirsten Raymonde
character in novel " Station Eleven"