Kirstyn
2,309 recorded births · active 1975–2021
Compare Kirstyn →Living-age distribution
The median living Kirstyn is 28. If you meet a Kirstyn, there's about a 70% chance they're between 19 and 36 years old.
Popularity arc
Peak Kirstyn: 1990. Down 90% from peak.
Gender balance
Kirstyn is almost always given to female babies — 100% female.
Rarity
Kirstyn ranks #6,951 out of 105,966 names ever recorded by the SSA.
Geographic fingerprint
Kirstyns are 0.5x more common in the South than the national average.
Predictive modeling
Three statistical models, all fit to Kirstyn's own SSA history plus the historical behavior of every other name in the dataset.
Peak popularity prediction
Kirstyn's modeled peak was #2,123 in 1990 — its trend isn't projected to beat that.
Not enough continuous recent history to project a peak rank.
Name life-cycle stage
A rule-based classifier over recent growth, momentum, and peak proximity.
Kirstyn peaked in 1990 and now sits at roughly 10% of that peak, 35 years later — a name that was genuinely common once, now mostly heard from an older generation.
Popularity survival model
Once a name reaches a rank tier, how long does it typically stay there before falling out?
Built from a Kaplan-Meier survival curve: every historical run any name has ever had above this tier, with runs still ongoing today counted as still in progress rather than as an exit.Kirstyn isn't currently in the Top 100 tier. Estimated chance of entering it in the forecast window: 0%.
If Kirstyn enters Top 100, chance it's still there after:
Names that do enter Top 100 have historically stayed a median of ~19 years. Based on 668 historical Top 100 runs across every name in the dataset.