Given name & surname
Kirstine
Kirstine is a feminine given name. It is used in Danish.
Meaning & origin
A reliable meaning for Kirstine isn’t established in our sources yet. Rather than guess, we show what is recorded: how the name is used, how often, and the names it’s connected to.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1957. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Kirstine through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 126
- 0 boys · 126 girls
- Most popular year
- 1990
- 13 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for girls is 6 in 1997. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for girls was 13 in 1990. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 245 as a first name in 2020; 182 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Kirstine’s family of names
In Danish usage, Kirstine has a related form in Christine. In Danish usage, Kirstine has a conventional equivalent in the German form Christina.
Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Around the world
Kirstine has relatives in 3 languages.
3 related names in 3 languages. Point at a dot, or tab to the map and use the arrow keys.
Nicknames & forms 1
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Across languages 2
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Kirstine
- Kirstine MeyerDanish physicist (1861–1941)
- Kirstine SmithDanish statistician1878–1939
- Kirstine FrederiksenDanish pedagogue and women's rights activist1845–1903
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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