Karstin
given name · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/kɑɹstən/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Karstin is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Sweden than in any other country. Recorded meaning: From Danish Karsten, Carsten.
- SESweden1 in 73K(measured from records)
- ISIceland1 in 351K
- GYGuyana1 in 750K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Sweden (measured from records)
- Sources
- 58 (measured from records)
- 1 in 73K (inferred from the name graph)
140 people
Highest-authority source
Sweden
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Kärstin in SE Sweden.
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)
From Danish Karsten, Carsten.
Sources 2
Where in the world(measured from records)
Karstin 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SE Sweden | 140 | 1 in 73K | 140 | Kärstin | 4 |
| US United States | ≈50 est. | ≈1 in 6.6M | 5 | Karstin | 58 |
| DE Germany | ≈20 est. | ≈1 in 4.1M | — | Karstin | 19 |
| PH Philippines | ≈15 est. | ≈1 in 7.1M | — | Karstin | 4 |
| CA Canada | ≈7 est. | ≈1 in 5.7M | — | Karstin | 3 |
| DK Denmark | 7 | 1 in 838K | 7 | — | — |
| NL Netherlands | ≈5 est. | ≈1 in 3.7M | — | Karstin | 2 |
| GY Guyana | 1 | 1 in 750K | 1 | — | 1 |
| IS Iceland | 1 | 1 in 351K | 1 | — | — |
140 people counted by Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population). 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: SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025; 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)
Karstin 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.
In Latvian, Savienojumos ar "karsts" un "karst" lieto lai raksturotu darbības pastiprinātu intensitāti
as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
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.
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 10 sources across 7 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 7 | #8,703 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2013 | 5 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2010 | 5 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2010 | 5 | — |
| IS Iceland | Þjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry) | 2026 | 1 | — |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 1 | #61,505 |
| GY Guyana | Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025 | 2025 | 1 | #593 |
Reference works 1
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
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
- What does the name Karstin mean, and where does it come from?
- From Danish Karsten, Carsten. Recorded by Wiktionary and Nordic Names.
- How do you pronounce Karstin?
- A machine transcription gives /kɑɹstən/ (IPA) for English.
- Is Karstin a male or female name?
- Karstin is recorded for both men and women. We don't publish a percentage split: a record's gender belongs to the person and is attached to every given name on that record, so names in cultures where a name string also carries a parent's or spouse's given name pick up large cross-gender counts.
- In which country does Karstin have the most bearers?
- In Sweden, the national register counted about 140 people named Karstin, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled kärstin.
- Where is Karstin most common?
- Karstin is densest in Sweden, where the national register counts about 1 in 73 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Karstin?
- In Sweden, the national register counted 140 people named Karstin, about 1 in 73 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Karstin?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/karstinThe 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, “Karstin”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.