Kirsti

femaleStatistical record

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

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

Kirsti: Recorded since 1945, it reached #43 in 1950, and it was last ranked in 2018.

2registrars recorded it
67times a registrar ranked it
74years from first to last
#43highest recorded position
17groupings it qualifies for

What stands out in Kirsti's record

Held a top-100 place for 27 years running. Names by top-100 run

Region

Falling

among girls in England and Wales · 1996–2008

View as table

England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
1996	#1914
1997	#3174
1998	#2407
1999	#3900
2008	#5545

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 62 of the 74 years from 1945 to 2018.

In 1999: #404 among girls in Norway, #3900 among girls in England and Wales.

Official data from 2 national registrars across 2 regions, 1945–2018 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1945
First recorded at #51 among girls in Norway in 1945 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
Norway · Girls
Highest recorded1945–2018
Highest recorded position: #43 among girls in Norway, in 1950 (recorded 1945–2018).
Norway · Girls
Most recent2018
Most recently recorded at #488 among girls in Norway, in 2018.
Norway · Girls

Kirsti appears in 2 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is Norway · Girls, which has ranked it in 62 years beginning in 1945, and has registered 4,114 births with the name.

Kirsti 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.

Kirsti'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	#51 (1945)	#43 (1950)	#488 (2018)	62 of 74	4,114 (1945–2018)	165 (1950)
England and Wales · Girls	#1914 (1996)	#1914 (1996)	#5545 (2008)	5 of 13	24 (1996–2008)	8 (1996)

Kirsti 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 Kirsti in Norway · Girls, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1940s	583	5 of 10	117
1950sbusiest	1,307	10 of 10	131
1960s	1,143	10 of 10	114
1970s	663	10 of 10	66
1980s	282	10 of 10	28
1990s	99	10 of 10	10
2000s	27	5 of 10	5
2010s	10	2 of 10	5

Across Norway · Girls, the 1950s were its busiest decade, averaging 131 births a year.

Its sharpest single-year move came between 1949 and 1950, when recorded births rose by 46, from 119 to 165.

See the names Norwayhas recorded the most births with →

Kirsti 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 2018. Highest recorded position: #43 in Norway in 1950.

Kirsti'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
2008	England and Wales	female	#5545	3	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	female	#3900	3	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	female	#2407	6	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	female	#3174	4	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	female	#1914	8	High	Verified
2018	Norway	female	#488	5	High	Verified
2012	Norway	female	#535	5	High	Verified
2007	Norway	female	#480	7	High	Verified
2005	Norway	female	#552	5	High	Verified
2004	Norway	female	#531	5	High	Verified
2002	Norway	female	#624	4	High	Verified
2000	Norway	female	#516	6	High	Verified
1999	Norway	female	#404	9	High	Verified
1998	Norway	female	#436	8	High	Verified
1997	Norway	female	#350	11	High	Verified
1996	Norway	female	#355	11	High	Verified
1995	Norway	female	#505	7	High	Verified
1994	Norway	female	#447	8	High	Verified
1993	Norway	female	#458	8	High	Verified
1992	Norway	female	#389	11	High	Verified
1991	Norway	female	#438	9	High	Verified
1990	Norway	female	#301	17	High	Verified
1989	Norway	female	#339	14	High	Verified
1988	Norway	female	#247	23	High	Verified
1987	Norway	female	#272	19	High	Verified
1986	Norway	female	#192	30	High	Verified
1985	Norway	female	#232	21	High	Verified
1984	Norway	female	#187	30	High	Verified
1983	Norway	female	#158	38	High	Verified
1982	Norway	female	#202	26	High	Verified
1981	Norway	female	#154	39	High	Verified
1980	Norway	female	#147	42	High	Verified
1979	Norway	female	#146	41	High	Verified
1978	Norway	female	#149	41	High	Verified
1977	Norway	female	#109	58	High	Verified
1976	Norway	female	#109	57	High	Verified
1975	Norway	female	#100	70	High	Verified
1974	Norway	female	#105	67	High	Verified
1973	Norway	female	#101	69	High	Verified
1972	Norway	female	#114	61	High	Verified
1971	Norway	female	#87	89	High	Verified
1970	Norway	female	#72	110	High	Verified
1969	Norway	female	#82	98	High	Verified
1968	Norway	female	#70	118	High	Verified
1967	Norway	female	#66	130	High	Verified
1966	Norway	female	#64	141	High	Verified
1965	Norway	female	#66	130	High	Verified
1964	Norway	female	#74	106	High	Verified
1963	Norway	female	#70	112	High	Verified
1962	Norway	female	#73	111	High	Verified
1961	Norway	female	#76	95	High	Verified
1960	Norway	female	#72	102	High	Verified
1959	Norway	female	#71	107	High	Verified
1958	Norway	female	#65	128	High	Verified
1957	Norway	female	#67	107	High	Verified
1956	Norway	female	#64	111	High	Verified
1955	Norway	female	#62	118	High	Verified
1954	Norway	female	#59	133	High	Verified
1953	Norway	female	#57	135	High	Verified
1952	Norway	female	#48	164	High	Verified
1951	Norway	female	#48	139	High	Verified
1950	Norway	female	#43	165	High	Verified
1949	Norway	female	#56	119	High	Verified
1948	Norway	female	#56	110	High	Verified
1947	Norway	female	#54	129	High	Verified
1946	Norway	female	#67	108	High	Verified
1945	Norway	female	#51	117	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 2018, ranked in 63 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #43, first reached in 1950.

It held a top-100 place in 28 years, 27 of them consecutive.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 165 births, registered in Norway in 1950.

Its record falls into 6 separate stretches, with a longest absence of 5 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.

Kirpa · #2504, 13y
Kirsten · #20, 80y
Kirstie · #194, 28y
Kirstin · #229, 18y

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.

Ylva · #43, 58y
Colette · #47, 61y
Lisbeth · #37, 64y
Inge · #52, 67y

Also first recorded in the 1940s

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

Erling · #43, 81y
Synnøve · #43, 81y
Torbjørn · #43, 81y
Torhild · #43, 51y

Kirsti was ranked #43 in Norway · Girls in 1950. 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.

Kirsti 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 Kirsti without appearing here.

Kirsti moved ahead of

Torill Compare
In 1995 they stood at #505 and #470 in Norway · Girls; by 1996 that had become #355 and #504.
Wenche Compare
In 2006 they stood at #516 and #483 in Norway · Girls; by 2007 that had become #480 and #629.
Reidun Compare
In 1998 they stood at #436 and #412 in Norway · Girls; by 1999 that had become #404 and #528.
Gerd Compare
In 1993 they stood at #458 and #420 in Norway · Girls; by 1994 that had become #447 and #517.

Moved ahead of Kirsti

Mila Compare
In 2011 they stood at #531 and #587 in Norway · Girls; by 2012 that had become #535 and #260.
Zara Compare
In 2004 they stood at #531 and #554 in Norway · Girls; by 2005 that had become #552 and #323.
Nicole Compare
In 1999 they stood at #404 and #411 in Norway · Girls; by 2000 that had become #516 and #303.
Hennie Compare
In 2001 they stood at #516 and #600 in Norway · Girls; by 2002 that had become #624 and #412.

Moved the opposite way to Kirsti

Ada Compare
Between 1945 and 2018 in Norway · Girls, Kirsti went from #51 to #488 while Ada went from #229 to #7.
Alice Compare
Between 1945 and 2018 in Norway · Girls, Kirsti went from #51 to #488 while Alice went from #292 to #147.
Alma Compare
Between 1945 and 2018 in Norway · Girls, Kirsti went from #51 to #488 while Alma went from #293 to #17.
Anna Compare
Between 1945 and 2018 in Norway · Girls, Kirsti went from #51 to #488 while Anna went from #38 to #12.

Moved the same way as Kirsti

Anita Compare
Between 1945 and 2018 in Norway · Girls, Kirsti went from #51 to #488 and Anita from #162 to #444.
Anne Compare
Between 1945 and 2018 in Norway · Girls, Kirsti went from #51 to #488 and Anne from #1 to #130.
Annie Compare
Between 1945 and 2018 in Norway · Girls, Kirsti went from #51 to #488 and Annie from #180 to #284.
Åse Compare
Between 1945 and 2018 in Norway · Girls, Kirsti went from #51 to #488 and Åse from #25 to #165.

What's not yet available

Meaning
Origin
Pronunciation
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 2018. Highest recorded position: #43 in Norway in 1950. Source data last verified 2026-07-25.

Kirsti

Kirsti at a glance

What stands out in Kirsti's record

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Kirsti across 2 official records

Kirsti by decade in Norway · Girls

Kirsti appears in

Popularity data

What the record shows

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Next in the catalogue

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Also first recorded in the 1940s

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Kirsti and the names beside it

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Kirsti at a glance

What stands out in Kirsti's record

Kirsti across 2 official records

Kirsti by decade in Norway · Girls

Kirsti appears in

What the record shows

Where to go next

Next in the catalogue

A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 1940s

Names published alongside Kirsti

Kirsti and the names beside it

Kirsti moved ahead of

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