Kirstin

femaleStatistical record

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

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

Kirstin: Recorded since 1988, it reached #229 in 1998, and it was last ranked in 2010.

3registrars recorded it
26times a registrar ranked it
23years from first to last
#229highest recorded position
9groupings it qualifies for

Region

Falling

among girls in England and Wales · 1996–2009

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England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
1996	#869
1997	#803
1998	#1076
1999	#952
2000	#748
2001	#1025
2002	#938
2003	#1628
2004	#1312
2005	#1589
2006	#2509
2007	#1965
2008	#4524
2009	#2759

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 Republic of Ireland in 8 of the 23 years from 1988 to 2010.

In 2004: #273 among girls in Northern Ireland, #1312 among girls in England and Wales.

Official data from 3 national registrars across 3 regions, 1988–2010 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1988
First recorded at #492 among girls in Republic of Ireland in 1988 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
Republic of Ireland · Girls
Highest recorded1997–2004
Highest recorded position: #229 among girls in Northern Ireland, in 1998 (recorded 1997–2004).
Northern Ireland · Girls
Most recent2010
Most recently recorded at #910 among girls in Republic of Ireland, in 2010.
Republic of Ireland · Girls

Kirstin appears in 3 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Girls, with 14 ranked years and 244 births registered; the earliest is Republic of Ireland · Girls, from 1988.

Kirstin across 3 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.

Kirstin'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
Republic of Ireland · Girls	#492 (1988)	#392 (1999)	#910 (2010)	8 of 23	30 (1988–2010)	5 (1989)
England and Wales · Girls	#869 (1996)	#748 (2000)	#2759 (2009)	14 of 14	244 (1996–2009)	31 (2000)
Northern Ireland · Girls	#358 (1997)	#229 (1998)	#273 (2004)	4 of 8	17 (1997–2004)	6 (1998)

Kirstin 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 3 regions, from 1988 to 2010. Highest recorded position: #229 in Northern Ireland in 1998.

Kirstin'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
2009	England and Wales	female	#2759	8	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	female	#4524	4	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	female	#1965	12	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	female	#2509	8	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	female	#1589	14	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	female	#1312	17	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	female	#1628	12	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	female	#938	24	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	female	#1025	20	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	female	#748	31	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	female	#952	22	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	female	#1076	19	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	female	#803	28	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	female	#869	25	High	Verified
2004	Northern Ireland	female	#273	5	High	Verified
2003	Northern Ireland	female	#331	3	High	Verified
1998	Northern Ireland	female	#229	6	High	Verified
1997	Northern Ireland	female	#358	3	High	Verified
2010	Republic of Ireland	female	#910	3	High	Verified
1999	Republic of Ireland	female	#392	5	High	Verified
1998	Republic of Ireland	female	#498	3	High	Verified
1997	Republic of Ireland	female	#440	5	High	Verified
1996	Republic of Ireland	female	#534	3	High	Verified
1994	Republic of Ireland	female	#502	3	High	Verified
1989	Republic of Ireland	female	#408	5	High	Verified
1988	Republic of Ireland	female	#492	3	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
Northern Ireland hub — collected by NISRA
Republic of Ireland hub — collected by CSO Ireland

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

What the record shows

Recorded by 3 registrars between 1988 and 2010, ranked in 18 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #229, first reached in 1998.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 31 births, registered in England and Wales in 2000.

Its record falls into 3 separate stretches, with a longest absence of 4 years.

A second registrar first ranked it in 1996, and 9 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.

Kirsti · #43, 63y
Kirstie · #194, 28y
Kirsty · #33, 54y
Kirstyn · #316, 13y

A comparable record

Records held by the same 3 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.

Mylie · #229, 19y
Siomha · #228, 16y
Brooks · #227, 13y
Ralphie · #226, 23y

Also first recorded in the 1980s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 1980 and 1989.

Roxanne · #229, 36y
Fallon · #230, 33y
Sidra · #230, 40y
Siomha · #228, 16y

Kirstin was ranked #229 in Northern Ireland · Girls in 1998. 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.

Kirstin 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 Kirstin without appearing here.

Kirstin moved ahead of

Kristy Compare
In 2008 they stood at #4524 and #3860 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2009 that had become #2759 and #5556.
Geraldine Compare
In 2008 they stood at #4524 and #2487 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2009 that had become #2759 and #3936.
Donna Compare
In 2008 they stood at #4524 and #1914 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2009 that had become #2759 and #3031.
Vicki Compare
In 1996 they stood at #869 and #848 in England and Wales · Girls; by 1997 that had become #803 and #1015.

Moved ahead of Kirstin

Dylan Compare
In 2007 they stood at #1965 and #2085 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2008 that had become #4524 and #1516.
Jesse Compare
In 2007 they stood at #1965 and #2233 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2008 that had become #4524 and #1914.
Jude Compare
In 2007 they stood at #1965 and #2085 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2008 that had become #4524 and #2150.
Luca Compare
In 2007 they stood at #1965 and #2233 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2008 that had become #4524 and #2721.

Moved the opposite way to Kirstin

Ada Compare
Between 1996 and 2009 in England and Wales · Girls, Kirstin went from #869 to #2759 while Ada went from #2683 to #547.
Alma Compare
Between 1996 and 2009 in England and Wales · Girls, Kirstin went from #869 to #2759 while Alma went from #2096 to #1105.
Alyssa Compare
Between 1996 and 2009 in England and Wales · Girls, Kirstin went from #869 to #2759 while Alyssa went from #783 to #168.
Amalie Compare
Between 1996 and 2009 in England and Wales · Girls, Kirstin went from #869 to #2759 while Amalie went from #2096 to #806.

Moved the same way as Kirstin

Abigail Compare
Between 1996 and 2009 in England and Wales · Girls, Kirstin went from #869 to #2759 and Abigail from #21 to #36.
Aisling Compare
Between 1996 and 2009 in England and Wales · Girls, Kirstin went from #869 to #2759 and Aisling from #440 to #1287.
Alex Compare
Between 1996 and 2009 in England and Wales · Girls, Kirstin went from #869 to #2759 and Alex from #161 to #495.
Alexandra Compare
Between 1996 and 2009 in England and Wales · Girls, Kirstin went from #869 to #2759 and Alexandra from #38 to #87.

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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 3 regions, from 1988 to 2010. Highest recorded position: #229 in Northern Ireland in 1998. Source data last verified 2026-07-22.

Kirstin

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Kirstin across 3 official records

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Kirstin across 3 official records

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