Kirsty
Kirsty reached its high-water mark in 1991 at number 1,555, and has been recorded 945 times in all. It has not appeared in the national data since 2013. About 920 Kirstys are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 34.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Kirsty
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 945
- Estimated living today
- 920
- Median age today
- 34
- Peak year
- 1991
- Best rank
- 1,555th
- Rank in 2025
- unranked
- First recorded
- 1961
How old the living Kirstys are
born that year still alive today
Of the 945 babies given the name since 1961, about 920 are alive — 97 in every hundred. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1991 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 Kirstys
- Kirsty Coventry (born 1983)Zimbabwean swimmer, politician, and sports administrator
- Kirsty MacColl (1959–2000)British singer
- Kirsty Hawkshaw (born 1969)British singer and songwriter
- Kirsty Gilmour (born 1993)badminton player
- Kirsty Yallop (born 1986)New Zealand footballer
- Kirsty Smith (born 1994)Scottish footballer
People named Kirsty with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Kirsty is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Kirsty is most concentrated in Texas (2.8×), California (2.8×), Pennsylvania (2.3×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1991
The most popular girls’ names the year Kirsty peaked:
Kirsty elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Scotland girls | Kirsty | 13,036 | 6th |
| England and Wales girls | Kirsty | 6,384 | 53rd |
| New Zealand girls | Kirsty | 2,083 | 46th |
| Ireland girls | Kirsty | 627 | 119th |
| Northern Ireland girls | Kirsty | 456 | 33rd |
| France girls | Kirsty | 20 | 4,617th |
| Belgium girls | Kirsty | 19 | 869th |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Kirsty: rank by region
In 1997, Kirsty was given 5 times or more in 1 region of Belgium.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Flanders | Kirsty | 641 | 6 |
Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Belgium below 5 children – and published nothing after. So a region missing here is one where the name fell outside what was published, not one where it went unused. Places are shared where names tie, and the further down a list a place is, the more names can share it.
Kirsty among the living
How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.
| Country | Spelling | First forename | Any forename |
|---|---|---|---|
| Finland girls | Kirsty | — | 6 |
A count of people on a register – Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.
Related names
Kirsty against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
Try it on yourself
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.