Feminine dossier · first seen 1937

Kirsten

Name: SSA baby-name counts for Kirsten
Creator: Social Security Administration

Endangered Down 97.4% from peak

Peak era

1991

Peak rank proxy

1,931

Current vitality

Rare

Generation

Millennial

1937Peak 19912024

Peak year

1991

Decline from peak

97.4%

2024

All-time

53,119

Kirsten once had enough force to mark a generation, but its current usage is a small remnant of that peak. The name still exists, yet now reads as a timestamp: personal, recognizable, and culturally receding.

Your name peaked in 1991, when 1,931 girls were named Kirsten.

In 2024, only 51 girls were given the name.

Down 97.4% from its peak.

All told, about 53,119 Americans have been named Kirsten and recorded by the Social Security Administration since 1937.

Rarity scoreVery uncommon

AssociationMillennial

StabilityHighly era-bound

TrajectoryDown 97.4% from peak

19911,931 girls named Kirsten

202451 girls named Kirsten

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