Kirkland vs Kirstin
American parents have registered 8,778 Kirstins since 1880, against 2,178 Kirklands. Neither name reached five babies in 2025.
Babies given each name, 1880–2025
Kirkland Kirstin
Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.
Who was ahead
Of the 94 years in which either name was published, Kirstin for 52 years and Kirkland for 42 years. The lead changed hands 2 times.
Side by side
| Kirkland | Kirstin | |
|---|---|---|
| Total US births | 2,178 | 8,778 |
| Most in one year | 122 | 413 |
| Babies in 2025 | under 5 | under 5 |
| Estimated living today | 1,900 | 8,500 |
| Median age today | 30 | 35 |
| Peak year | 1997 | 1990 |
| Best rank | 1,045th boys | 564th girls |
| Rank in 2025 | unranked | unranked |
| First recorded | 1914 | 1942 |
| Girls / boys | 18 / 2,160 | 8,778 / 0 |
A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.
Which name is older
Half of the Kirstins alive today are over 35; half the Kirklands are over 30. That is 5 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.
Where each one is strongest
- Kirkland Louisiana (11.7×), Mississippi (5.4×), Tennessee (3.7×)
- Kirstin Minnesota (2.6×), Washington (2.0×), Wisconsin (1.7×)
How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.
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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Kirkland and Kirstin.