Kierstin
A girls’ name with no widely documented etymology — three syllables, given to 17 babies a year in the US.
Kierstin by the numbers
Kierstin was given to 17 American babies in 2017, the most recent full year we hold.
Its American peak was 174 babies in 2005, so it is a 2000s name that has since fallen a long way.
What we can tell you about Kierstin
Not every name has a meaning to trace. Plenty are coined rather than inherited — invented outright, blended from two names, or respelled from an older one — and where we cannot find an etymology we can stand behind, we would rather say so than make one up. What follows comes from the birth records themselves.
Spelled almost the same
Other names in the records within a letter or two of Kierstin. Close spellings are not always related names, but they are usually worth seeing together.
- Kierstenfollower of christ; a form of Kirsten100 in the US (2017)
- Kierstynchristian; a modern respelling of kirsten42 in the US (2017)
- Kirstinfollower of christ; a form of Christina10 in the US (2017)
- Kerstinfollower of christ; a form of Kristin5 in the US (2017)
- Kierstan6 in the US (2017)
- Kierston6 in the US (2017)
Names about as common as Kierstin
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