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How popular is “Kirsten” in the USA?

Number of people named “Kirsten” by birth year

This chart shows how many people named “Kirsten” were born each year.

Due to changes to population growth and data collection rates over time, this isn't a good chart for understanding popularity.

Popularity of “Kirsten” by birth year

This chart shows how the popularity of “Kirsten” has changed over time.

Popularity is the number of people named “Kirsten” born in that year divided by the total number of births for that year.

Bias in sex for “Kirsten” by birth year

This chart shows how “Kirsten” has been used as gendered name over time. The scale ranges from 1 (only females) to -1 (only males).

Sex is a required field in SSA's Social Security Card applications (only 2 options). Most applications are filed around a person's time of birth.

The raw data

This table shows the data used in the above charts.

Year Count Proportion Females Males Bias toward female
1937 10 0.000004693 10 100%
1938 14 0.000006327 14 100%
1939 16 0.000007261 16 100%
1940 24 0.000010423 24 100%
1941 28 0.000011492 28 100%
1942 30 0.000010982 30 100%
1943 28 0.00000992 28 100%
1944 27 0.000010037 27 100%
1945 24 0.000009047 24 100%
1946 34 0.000010641 34 100%
1947 31 0.000008606 31 100%
1948 36 0.000010427 36 100%
1949 35 0.000010044 35 100%
1950 28 0.000007992 28 100%
1951 33 0.000008958 33 100%
1952 46 0.000012112 46 100%
1953 38 0.000009861 38 100%
1954 59 0.000014821 59 100%
1955 79 0.000019676 79 100%
1956 87 0.000021101 87 100%
1957 109 0.000025939 109 100%
1958 139 0.000033624 139 100%
1959 195 0.000046898 195 100%
1960 258 0.000062112 258 100%
1961 241 0.00005818 241 100%
1962 306 0.000075829 306 100%
1963 606 0.0001531 598 8 97%
1964 687 0.000176715 687 100%
1965 641 0.000176806 641 100%
1966 860 0.000247435 852 8 98%
1967 824 0.000242717 816 8 98%
1968 1107 0.000327669 1107 100%
1969 1156 0.000332631 1156 100%
1970 1046 0.000290031 1034 12 98%
1971 943 0.000274738 936 7 99%
1972 901 0.000286669 901 100%
1973 797 0.00026418 790 7 98%
1974 819 0.000269408 808 11 97%
1975 762 0.000252369 762 100%
1976 719 0.000236957 714 5 99%
1977 695 0.000218795 687 8 98%
1978 827 0.000260565 814 13 97%
1979 827 0.000248572 817 10 98%
1980 717 0.000208158 705 12 97%
1981 709 0.00020495 709 100%
1982 746 0.000212659 740 6 98%
1983 723 0.000208758 715 8 98%
1984 730 0.000209244 724 6 98%
1985 759 0.000212658 751 8 98%
1986 747 0.000210004 747 100%
1987 898 0.000249056 891 7 98%
1988 1230 0.000332878 1221 9 99%
1989 1548 0.000402659 1538 10 99%
1990 1879 0.000475398 1869 10 99%
1991 1938 0.000497527 1931 7 99%
1992 1839 0.000478748 1832 7 99%
1993 1546 0.000410049 1546 100%
1994 1537 0.000413433 1537 100%
1995 1681 0.000459019 1681 100%
1996 1778 0.000487498 1773 5 99%
1997 1633 0.00045039 1633 100%
1998 1555 0.00042276 1547 8 99%
1999 1533 0.000415012 1533 100%
2000 1273 0.000336781 1273 100%
2001 1224 0.000326976 1224 100%
2002 1126 0.000301207 1126 100%
2003 1116 0.000293505 1116 100%
2004 1101 0.00028815 1089 12 98%
2005 1003 0.000260869 1003 100%
2006 783 0.000197918 783 100%
2007 726 0.000181605 726 100%
2008 543 0.000138145 543 100%
2009 454 0.000118843 454 100%
2010 319 0.000086316 319 100%
2011 309 0.000084477 309 100%
2012 256 0.000069996 256 100%
2013 212 0.000058151 212 100%
2014 184 0.000049644 184 100%
2015 122 0.000032965 122 100%
2016 150 0.000040886 150 100%
2017 107 0.00002992 107 100%
2018 89 0.000025314 89 100%
2019 60 0.000017286 60 100%
2020 70 0.000020954 70 100%
2021 57 0.000016824 57 100%
2022 63 0.000018622 63 100%
2023 35 0.00001057 35 100%
2024 51 0.000015322 51 100%

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