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How popular is “Kierston” in the USA?

Number of people named “Kierston” by birth year

This chart shows how many people named “Kierston” 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 “Kierston” by birth year

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

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

Bias in sex for “Kierston” by birth year

This chart shows how “Kierston” 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
1971 5 0.000001457 5 100%
1972 5 0.000001591 5 100%
1976 5 0.000001648 5 100%
1978 11 0.000003466 11 100%
1979 9 0.000002705 9 100%
1980 11 0.000003193 11 100%
1981 9 0.000002602 9 100%
1982 5 0.000001425 5 100%
1983 6 0.000001732 6 100%
1985 8 0.000002241 8 100%
1986 10 0.000002811 10 100%
1987 11 0.000003051 11 100%
1988 17 0.000004601 17 100%
1989 26 0.000006763 26 100%
1990 43 0.000010879 38 5 77%
1991 23 0.000005905 23 100%
1992 34 0.000008851 26 8 53%
1993 34 0.000009018 34 100%
1994 32 0.000008608 32 100%
1995 29 0.000007919 29 100%
1996 33 0.000009048 33 100%
1997 29 0.000007998 29 100%
1998 31 0.000008428 31 100%
1999 29 0.000007851 29 100%
2000 42 0.000011111 42 100%
2001 43 0.000011487 43 100%
2002 34 0.000009095 34 100%
2003 28 0.000007364 28 100%
2004 36 0.000009422 36 100%
2005 29 0.000007543 29 100%
2006 24 0.000006066 24 100%
2007 25 0.000006254 25 100%
2008 23 0.000005851 23 100%
2009 16 0.000004188 16 100%
2010 23 0.000006223 23 100%
2011 23 0.000006288 23 100%
2012 12 0.000003281 12 100%
2013 16 0.000004389 16 100%
2015 10 0.000002702 10 100%
2017 6 0.000001678 6 100%
2020 7 0.000002095 7 100%
2021 5 0.000001476 5 100%
2023 5 0.00000151 5 100%

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