Kersten
About 918 American babies have been named Kersten since 1963, most of them around 1997. It has not appeared in the national data since 2015. About 890 Kerstens are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 33.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Kersten
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 918
- Estimated living today
- 890
- Median age today
- 33
- Peak year
- 1997
- Best rank
- 2,695th
- Rank in 2025
- unranked
- First recorded
- 1963
How old the living Kerstens are
born that year still alive today
Of the 918 babies given the name since 1963, about 890 are alive — 97 in every hundred. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1992 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Notable Kerstens
- Kersten Neisser (born 1956)East German rower
People named Kersten with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Kersten is most common
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1997
The most popular girls’ names the year Kersten peaked:
Related names
Kersten against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
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Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.