Kerstin

femaleStatistical record

What official birth registration shows about Kerstin: which national registrars published it, in which years, and how its recorded position changed.

No researched meaning, origin or pronunciation yet — what that means.

Kerstin: Recorded since 1945, it reached #198 in 1955, and it was last ranked in 2005.

2registrars recorded it
43times a registrar ranked it
61years from first to last
#198highest recorded position
11groupings it qualifies for

Region

Falling

among girls in England and Wales · 1996–2005

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England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
1996	#2350
1998	#2407
2005	#4798

VerifiedSource: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales.Confidence: high.

See all England and Wales names · Source: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales

What the data shows

FallingEngland and Wales · Girls

Recorded in official data among girls in Norway in 40 of the 49 years from 1945 to 1993.

Official data from 2 national registrars across 2 regions, 1945–2005 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1945
First recorded at #247 among girls in Norway in 1945 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
Norway · Girls
Highest recorded1945–1993
Highest recorded position: #198 among girls in Norway, in 1955 (recorded 1945–1993).
Norway · Girls
Most recent2005
Most recently recorded at #4798 among girls in England and Wales, in 2005.
England and Wales · Girls

Kerstin appears in 2 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is Norway · Girls, which has ranked it in 40 years beginning in 1945, and has registered 402 births with the name.

Kerstin across 2 official records

Each registrar publishes its own list, so these figures are read down a row, never across one. A position in one country is not comparable with a position in another, and Namewise never combines them into a single ranking. The birth counts do not compare across rows either, for a different reason: England and Wales registers roughly thirty times as many births a year as Northern Ireland, so a larger total says which registrar recorded it as much as how widely the name was given.

Kerstin's first, highest and most recent recorded position in each official list, with the number of births each registrar registered with the name and its largest single year
Published list	First recorded	Highest	Most recent	Years recorded	Births registered	Most in one year
Norway · Girls	#247 (1945)	#198 (1955)	#646 (1993)	40 of 49	402 (1945–1993)	19 (1955)
England and Wales · Girls	#2350 (1996)	#2350 (1996)	#4798 (2005)	3 of 10	15 (1996–2005)	6 (1996)

Kerstin by decade in Norway · Girls

Births registered with the name in each decade of this one list, with the number of years the list covers in that decade. Bars are scaled on births a year, which is the figure that compares between decades — a decade the list only partly covers has a smaller total without being a quieter decade. Figures belong to this registrar alone and do not carry to another.

Births registered with Kerstin in Norway · Girls, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1940s	42	5 of 10	8
1950s	117	10 of 10	12
1960sbusiest	125	10 of 10	13
1970s	76	8 of 10	10
1980s	38	6 of 10	6
1990s	4	1 of 10	4

Across Norway · Girls, the 1960s were its busiest decade, averaging 13 births a year.

See the names Norwayhas recorded the most births with →

Kerstin appears in

Groupings this name qualifies for under their own stated rules, from the same official statistics shown above.

Popularity data

Official popularity data is available for 2 regions, from 1945 to 2005. Highest recorded position: #198 in Norway in 1955.

Kerstin's recorded popularity observations by year, region and administrative category, including rank, registered births, source confidence and when each region's data was last reviewed.
Year	Region	Category	Rank	Births registered	Confidence	Status
2005	England and Wales	female	#4798	3	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	female	#2407	6	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	female	#2350	6	High	Verified
1993	Norway	female	#646	4	High	Verified
1987	Norway	female	#661	4	High	Verified
1986	Norway	female	#520	7	High	Verified
1985	Norway	female	#525	7	High	Verified
1984	Norway	female	#559	6	High	Verified
1983	Norway	female	#537	6	High	Verified
1981	Norway	female	#441	8	High	Verified
1979	Norway	female	#525	6	High	Verified
1977	Norway	female	#514	6	High	Verified
1976	Norway	female	#354	11	High	Verified
1974	Norway	female	#502	6	High	Verified
1973	Norway	female	#328	12	High	Verified
1972	Norway	female	#348	11	High	Verified
1971	Norway	female	#337	11	High	Verified
1970	Norway	female	#294	13	High	Verified
1969	Norway	female	#454	6	High	Verified
1968	Norway	female	#310	12	High	Verified
1967	Norway	female	#423	7	High	Verified
1966	Norway	female	#352	9	High	Verified
1965	Norway	female	#266	14	High	Verified
1964	Norway	female	#242	16	High	Verified
1963	Norway	female	#274	13	High	Verified
1962	Norway	female	#266	12	High	Verified
1961	Norway	female	#226	17	High	Verified
1960	Norway	female	#203	19	High	Verified
1959	Norway	female	#272	12	High	Verified
1958	Norway	female	#229	15	High	Verified
1957	Norway	female	#299	9	High	Verified
1956	Norway	female	#248	13	High	Verified
1955	Norway	female	#198	19	High	Verified
1954	Norway	female	#368	6	High	Verified
1953	Norway	female	#228	15	High	Verified
1952	Norway	female	#257	12	High	Verified
1951	Norway	female	#278	10	High	Verified
1950	Norway	female	#345	6	High	Verified
1949	Norway	female	#345	6	High	Verified
1948	Norway	female	#367	5	High	Verified
1947	Norway	female	#311	8	High	Verified
1946	Norway	female	#275	11	High	Verified
1945	Norway	female	#247	12	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
Norway hub — collected by Statistics Norway (SSB)

See methodology and data sources for how popularity data is collected and what "confidence" means.

What the record shows

Recorded by 2 registrars between 1945 and 2005, ranked in 43 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #198, first reached in 1955.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 19 births, registered in Norway in 1955.

Its record falls into 9 separate stretches, with a longest absence of 6 years.

A second registrar first ranked it in 1996, and 51 years separate the first registrar to record it from the last.

Every figure here is counted from the seven official registrars Namewise holds. A position is only ever a place within the list that published it, and a record that thins or stops is a fact about what registrars printed — never about how many children received the name.

Where to go next

Records with a comparable body of evidence, so the catalogue can be read outward from this one. Each group states the rule it was selected by.

Next in the catalogue

The records either side of this one alphabetically.

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Keshav · #1246, 29y
Kester · #898, 28y

A comparable record

Records held by the same 2 registrars, over a similar number of ranked years, whose highest position is closest to this one. A similar body of evidence — never a claim that the names themselves are alike.

Aengus · #200, 38y
Vida · #196, 40y
Dora · #202, 43y
Malvin · #193, 47y

Also first recorded in the 1940s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 1940 and 1949.

Kaare · #199, 31y
Anni · #200, 56y
Betty · #200, 58y
Gun · #196, 28y

Kerstin was ranked #198 in Norway · Girls in 1955. These are the names immediately either side of it on that published list — a fact about the registrar's own output, not a similarity judgement.

Kerstin and the names beside it

Two names in the same published list are measured on the same scale, in the same year, by the same registrar — so these are positions that genuinely passed each other, not a similarity judgement. Drawn from the 2,573 names with a recorded popularity standing (common, familiar, uncommon), so a name outside that set could have passed Kerstin without appearing here.

Kerstin moved ahead of

Wenche Compare
In 1992 they stood at #661 and #214 in Norway · Girls; by 1993 that had become #646 and #678.
Vigdis Compare
In 1992 they stood at #661 and #345 in Norway · Girls; by 1993 that had become #646 and #676.

Moved ahead of Kerstin

Jessica Compare
In 1976 they stood at #354 and #428 in Norway · Girls; by 1977 that had become #514 and #196.
Frida Compare
In 1976 they stood at #354 and #399 in Norway · Girls; by 1977 that had become #514 and #201.
Stephanie Compare
In 1982 they stood at #441 and #458 in Norway · Girls; by 1983 that had become #537 and #244.
Andrea Compare
In 1973 they stood at #328 and #357 in Norway · Girls; by 1974 that had become #502 and #220.

Moved the opposite way to Kerstin

Anna Compare
Between 1945 and 1993 in Norway · Girls, Kerstin went from #247 to #646 while Anna went from #38 to #15.
Cecilie Compare
Between 1945 and 1993 in Norway · Girls, Kerstin went from #247 to #646 while Cecilie went from #359 to #34.
Christine Compare
Between 1945 and 1993 in Norway · Girls, Kerstin went from #247 to #646 while Christine went from #253 to #61.
Elisabeth Compare
Between 1945 and 1993 in Norway · Girls, Kerstin went from #247 to #646 while Elisabeth went from #50 to #29.

Moved the same way as Kerstin

Alma Compare
Between 1945 and 1993 in Norway · Girls, Kerstin went from #247 to #646 and Alma from #293 to #520.
Anne Compare
Between 1945 and 1993 in Norway · Girls, Kerstin went from #247 to #646 and Anne from #1 to #22.
Annie Compare
Between 1945 and 1993 in Norway · Girls, Kerstin went from #247 to #646 and Annie from #180 to #277.
Åse Compare
Between 1945 and 1993 in Norway · Girls, Kerstin went from #247 to #646 and Åse from #25 to #239.

What's not yet available

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Nicknames and spelling variants

Absence from this list does not mean the name isn't genuinely meaningful or widely used — only that Namewise hasn't sourced and reviewed that content yet. Absence from a specific year or geography above does not prove zero use there either; official statistics only publish names above a minimum threshold.

Official popularity data is available for 2 regions, from 1945 to 2005. Highest recorded position: #198 in Norway in 1955. Source data last verified 2026-07-25.

Kerstin

Kerstin at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Kerstin across 2 official records

Kerstin by decade in Norway · Girls

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Kerstin across 2 official records

Kerstin by decade in Norway · Girls

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What the record shows

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