Kirstin
given name · Latin script
Meaning: 2 Scottish vernacular form of Christine, now also used outside Scotland
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ˈkɝstɪn/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Kirstin is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 40K(measured from records)
- NLNetherlands1 in 46K
- DKDenmark1 in 53K
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 15 (measured from records)
- 1 in 40K (inferred from the name graph)
8,232 people, 2020
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
United States
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
2 Scottish vernacular form of Christine, now also used outside Scotland. 142 Kirsty ° Variant spelling of Kirstie.
Sources 1
- A concise dictionary of first names
Attested across 18 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Kirstin counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 8,232 | 1 in 40K | 8.2K | Kirstin | 15 |
| NL Netherlands | 373 | 1 in 46K | 373 | — | 1 |
| DK Denmark | 111 | 1 in 53K | 111 | — | — |
| SE Sweden | 37 | 1 in 276K | 37 | — | — |
| FI Finland | 12 | 1 in 464K | 62 | — | — |
| IS Iceland | 2 | 1 in 175K | 2 | — | — |
8,232 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Þjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Kirstin is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
Scottish: vernacular form of CHRISTINE , now quite widely used in the English-speaking world.
as a word
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Kirstin Korteb. 1955DEGerman politician
- Kirstin Breitenfellnerb. 1966DEGerman journalist
- Kirstin Cronn-Millsb. 1968USauthor of children's and young adult books
- Kirstin Fergusonb. 1973AUAustralian company director
- Kirstin Funkeb. 1973DEGerman politician
- Kirstin Freyeb. 1975DEGerman female tennis player
- Kirstin Hesseb. 1980DEGerman actress
- Kirstin Fischerb. 1980DEGerman actress
- Kirstin Warnkeb. 1981DEGerman actress, comedian and writer
- Kirstin Maldonadob. 1992USAmerican singer
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them(machine-generated)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 43 sources across 24 countries.
Reference works 4
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Ethiopian name tokens (GitHub lehagere/ethiopian-names, 40/60 condominium list)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- Where does the name Kirstin come from?
- 2 Scottish vernacular form of Christine, now also used outside Scotland. 142 Kirsty ° Variant spelling of Kirstie. Recorded by A concise dictionary of first names.
- How do you pronounce Kirstin?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈkɝstɪn/ (IPA) for English.
- What does the name Kirstin mean?
- Recorded meaning: 2 Scottish vernacular form of Christine, now also used outside Scotland.
- Is Kirstin a male or female name?
- Kirstin is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- What are other forms of the name Kirstin?
- In the etymology graph, Christine, Cristina and Christina are forms of the same name in other languages; Kirsty and Kirstie are recorded short or pet forms.
- In which country does Kirstin have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 8.2 thousand people named Kirstin, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled kirstin.
- Where is Kirstin most common?
- Kirstin is densest in the United States, where the national register counts about 1 in 40 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Kirstin?
- In the United States, the national register counted 8,232 people named Kirstin in 2020, about 1 in 40 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/kirstinThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Kirstin”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.