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Girl

Kirsten

Kirsten means "Scandinavian variant of Christine", according to etymological references. It has not kept pace since its 1990s peak. In the current registry, it is a name plenty of people share. Across the twelve decades this registry covers, it appears in 9 of them.

EtymologyScandinavian variant of Christine
EtymologyMeaning "follower of Christ"
Also spelled: Kristen, Kristin
Births by decade
1900s
0
1910s
0
1920s
0
1930s
40
1940s
297
1950s
813
1960s
6,681
1970s
8,332
1980s
8,803
1990s
16,919
2000s
9,347
2010s
1,655
Peaked in the 1990s · 52,887 total U.S. births since 1900