Kerstin
given name · German · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Kerstin is a given name, most frequently recorded in Germany, where it is the 79th most common given name. It appears chiefly in German and English, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: weibl. Vom., niederdeutsche und schwedische Form von.
- SESweden1 in 135◐
- DEGermany1 in 423
- ATAustria1 in 472
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈82K ●
- 3 ●
- Sources
- 232 ●
- 1 in 135 ◐
across 9 countries
recorded for this name
311K records
Official registry-verified
Sweden
Spellings & scripts●
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin●
weibl. Vom., niederdeutsche und schwedische Form von
Sources 1
- DUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
Attested across 17 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DE Germany | #79 | 286,629 | 262K rec. | — | 1 | Kerstin | 232 |
| SE Sweden | #58 | 75,546△ | 17K rec. | 1 in 135 | 76K | Kerstin | 100 |
| AT Austria | #96 | 35,074 | 5.6K rec. | — | 8.4K | Kerstin | 122 |
| US United States | — | 3,666 | 12K rec. | 1 in 91K | 3.7K | Kerstin | 228 |
| FI Finland | — | 1,541△ | 140 rec. | 1 in 3.6K | 2.7K | Kerstin | 17 |
| FR France | — | 1,477 | 1.1K rec. | — | listed | Kerstin | 136 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | 1,150 | 755 rec. | — | listed | Kerstin | 80 |
| CH Switzerland | #570 | 1,117 | 739 rec. | — | — | Kerstin | 67 |
| BE Belgium | — | 621 | 578 rec. | — | 5 | Kerstin | 29 |
| NO Norway | — | 437 | 310 rec. | 1 in 13K | 1.2K | Kerstin | 27 |
| DK Denmark | — | 342△ | 141 rec. | 1 in 17K | 342 | Kerstin | 55 |
| PE Peru | — | 305 | 228 rec. | — | — | Kerstin | 17 |
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- German345K80%
- English28K6%
- Swedish21K5%
- Finnish11K3%
- Spanish4.4K1%
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| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| German | 344,501 | 80% |
| English | 27,559 | 6% |
| Swedish | 20,783 | 5% |
| Finnish | 10,832 | 3% |
| Spanish | 4,427 | 1% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Other recorded senses●
Kerstin is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Swedish, Kerstin är en nordisk och lågtysk form av → Christina (> Kristin > Kirstin > Kerstin). Det förekom allmänt under tidigmodern tid och är idag det åttonde vanligaste tilltals namnet. I både den rikssvenska och finlandssvenska almanackan 24 juli.
as a nameFörnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon
In French, Forme germanique/scandinave de Christine, du latin Christianus.
as a nameDictionnaire généalogique des prénoms
Swedish: variant of KRISTINA .
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.
Over time●
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| Year | records |
|---|---|
| 1950 | 6 |
| 1952 | 8 |
| 1953 | 5 |
| 1955 | 6 |
| 1956 | 8 |
| 1957 | 7 |
| 1958 | 9 |
| 1959 | 15 |
| 1960 | 14 |
| 1961 | 21 |
| 1962 | 23 |
| 1963 | 33 |
| 1964 | 34 |
| 1965 | 35 |
| 1966 | 33 |
| 1967 | 38 |
| 1968 | 38 |
| 1969 | 46 |
| 1970 | 41 |
| 1971 | 47 |
| 1972 | 30 |
| 1973 | 29 |
| 1974 | 33 |
| 1975 | 34 |
| 1976 | 29 |
| 1977 | 29 |
| 1978 | 38 |
| 1979 | 29 |
| 1980 | 34 |
| 1981 | 53 |
| 1982 | 40 |
| 1983 | 41 |
| 1984 | 41 |
| 1985 | 32 |
| 1986 | 35 |
| 1987 | 41 |
| 1988 | 61 |
| 1989 | 67 |
| 1990 | 76 |
| 1991 | 69 |
| 1992 | 63 |
| 1993 | 70 |
| 1994 | 59 |
| 1995 | 86 |
| 1996 | 90 |
| 1997 | 85 |
| 1998 | 97 |
| 1999 | 88 |
| 2000 | 89 |
| 2001 | 83 |
| 2002 | 60 |
| 2003 | 52 |
| 2004 | 48 |
| 2005 | 45 |
| 2006 | 33 |
| 2007 | 28 |
| 2008 | 30 |
| 2009 | 21 |
| 2010 | 16 |
| 2011 | 16 |
| 2012 | 14 |
| 2013 | 11 |
| 2014 | 9 |
| 2015 | 14 |
| 2016 | 6 |
| 2017 | 5 |
| 2018 | 6 |
| 2021 | 5 |
US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 68 years between 1950–2021. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Notable people with this name●
- Kerstin Thorvallb. 1925SESwedish writer & artist (1925–2010)
- Kerstin Meyerb. 1928SESwedish singer (1928-2020)
- Anita Ekbergb. 1931SEnot in their usual nameSwedish actress (1931–2015)
- Kristina Bachb. 1962DEnot in their usual nameGerman singer
- Kerstin Försterb. 1965DEEast German rower
- Kerstin Emhoffb. 1967USAmerican film producer (born 1967)
- Kerstin Stegemannb. 1977DEGerman association football player
- Kerstin Garefrekesb. 1979DEGerman association football player
- Kerstin Thieleb. 1986DEGerman judoka
- Kerstin Frankb. 1988ATAustrian figure skater
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).
Evidence●
Attested in 60 sources across 33 countries.
Reference works 4
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- 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 2026-09-12 data build · 479 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Kerstin?
- We estimate roughly 82 thousand people bear Kerstin (counting its spellings and scripts) across 9 countries in our records.
- In which country does Kerstin have the most bearers?
- Kerstin is most frequently recorded in Germany, where it is most often spelled kerstin.
- Where is Kerstin most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Kerstin is densest in Sweden — about 1 in 135 people — even though Germany holds more of our records for it.
- How common is Kerstin compared with other names?
- In Germany, Kerstin is the 79th most common given name of 154,506 given names recorded there.
- Is Kerstin a male or female name?
- Kerstin 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 does the name Kerstin mean?
- Recorded meaning: weibl. Vom., niederdeutsche und schwedische Form von
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About this data
Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.
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.
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Cite this page Mondonomo, “Kerstin” — the 79th most common given name in Germany. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.