Kirstine
Kirstine is a name with a single cultural origin: Danish.
- Danish
Meaning & Origin of Kirstine
What this name means, where it came from, and how it has traveled across cultures.
Kirstine is a name with a single cultural origin: Danish.
Origin data from Behind the Name .
Cultural Origins (via Behind the Name)
- Danish
The Story of Kirstine
American parents first put Kirstine on the record books as a baby girl name in 1957, with 5 registered babies. Its peak popularity came in 1990, when 13 Kirstines were born — ranking #6,465 that year. About 44% of every Kirstine on record arrived during the 1990s, its defining decade. Kirstine last appeared in the published SSA data in 1997, with 6 recorded births — it has not charted nationally since. All told, over 126 Americans have carried the name since 1880, from the 1950s to the 2020s.
Popularity Over Time
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Variants & Related Forms of Kirstine
Foreign forms, alternate spellings, and nicknames that share roots with Kirstine. Linked entries have a profile on Peek a Name.
Names that sound like Kirstine
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About the name Kirstine
Kirstine is a girl baby name tracked by the U.S. Social Security Administration. It first appeared in SSA records in 1957 and has accumulated 126 births in the dataset. Kirstine's peak popularity came in 1990 when it ranked #6,465. Use the chart and map above to compare Kirstine's trajectory across years and U.S. states, or browse the related names section to discover similar choices.
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Data sources
- Birth statistics (counts, ranks, years 1880–2026) — U.S. Social Security Administration . Predictions for years not yet released by SSA are computed by Peek a Name from historical trends; we update with official data as soon as it ships.
- Etymology, cultural origins, and related forms — Behind the Name (used under their public API terms).
- Meaning prose and editorial summary — Wikipedia article extracts, licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0 .
- Predicted nationality distribution — Nationalize.io .
- Phonetically similar names — Datamuse .
Peek a Name aggregates and presents the above data for informational purposes. Statistical predictions and external attributions are clearly labelled where shown; we make no guarantee of accuracy beyond what each source provides.