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How popular is “Kerstin” in the USA?

Number of people named “Kerstin” by birth year

This chart shows how many people named “Kerstin” were born each year.

Due to changes to population growth and data collection rates over time, this isn't a good chart for understanding popularity.

Popularity of “Kerstin” by birth year

This chart shows how the popularity of “Kerstin” has changed over time.

Popularity is the number of people named “Kerstin” born in that year divided by the total number of births for that year.

Bias in sex for “Kerstin” by birth year

This chart shows how “Kerstin” has been used as gendered name over time. The scale ranges from 1 (only females) to -1 (only males).

Sex is a required field in SSA's Social Security Card applications (only 2 options). Most applications are filed around a person's time of birth.

The raw data

This table shows the data used in the above charts.

Year Count Proportion Females Males Bias toward female
1950 6 0.000001713 6 100%
1952 8 0.000002106 8 100%
1953 5 0.000001297 5 100%
1955 6 0.000001494 6 100%
1956 8 0.00000194 8 100%
1957 7 0.000001666 7 100%
1958 9 0.000002177 9 100%
1959 15 0.000003608 15 100%
1960 14 0.00000337 14 100%
1961 21 0.00000507 21 100%
1962 23 0.0000057 23 100%
1963 33 0.000008337 33 100%
1964 34 0.000008746 34 100%
1965 35 0.000009654 35 100%
1966 33 0.000009495 33 100%
1967 38 0.000011193 38 100%
1968 38 0.000011248 38 100%
1969 46 0.000013236 46 100%
1970 40 0.000011091 40 100%
1971 47 0.000013693 47 100%
1972 30 0.000009545 30 100%
1973 29 0.000009613 29 100%
1974 32 0.000010526 32 100%
1975 34 0.000011261 34 100%
1976 29 0.000009557 29 100%
1977 29 0.00000913 29 100%
1978 38 0.000011973 38 100%
1979 29 0.000008717 29 100%
1980 34 0.000009871 34 100%
1981 53 0.000015321 53 100%
1982 40 0.000011403 40 100%
1983 41 0.000011838 41 100%
1984 41 0.000011752 41 100%
1985 32 0.000008966 32 100%
1986 35 0.00000984 35 100%
1987 41 0.000011371 41 100%
1988 61 0.000016509 61 100%
1989 67 0.000017428 67 100%
1990 76 0.000019228 76 100%
1991 69 0.000017714 69 100%
1992 63 0.000016401 63 100%
1993 70 0.000018566 70 100%
1994 59 0.00001587 59 100%
1995 86 0.000023483 86 100%
1996 90 0.000024676 90 100%
1997 85 0.000023443 85 100%
1998 97 0.000026372 97 100%
1999 88 0.000023823 88 100%
2000 89 0.000023546 89 100%
2001 83 0.000022172 83 100%
2002 60 0.00001605 60 100%
2003 52 0.000013676 52 100%
2004 48 0.000012562 48 100%
2005 45 0.000011704 45 100%
2006 33 0.000008341 33 100%
2007 28 0.000007004 28 100%
2008 30 0.000007632 30 100%
2009 21 0.000005497 21 100%
2010 16 0.000004329 16 100%
2011 16 0.000004374 16 100%
2012 14 0.000003828 14 100%
2013 11 0.000003017 11 100%
2014 9 0.000002428 9 100%
2015 14 0.000003783 14 100%
2016 6 0.000001635 6 100%
2017 5 0.000001398 5 100%
2018 6 0.000001707 6 100%
2021 5 0.000001476 5 100%

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