Given name & surname
Kista
Kista is a feminine given name from Danish. It is used in Greenlandic.
Meaning & origin
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1967. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Kista through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 79
- 0 boys · 79 girls
- Most popular year
- 1980
- 12 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 7 in 1990. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for girls was 12 in 1980. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 149 as a first name in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Kista’s family of names
In Greenlandic usage, Kista has a conventional equivalent in the English form Christina. In Greenlandic usage, Kista was borrowed from the Danish form Kirsten. In Greenlandic usage, Kista has a conventional equivalent in the Polish form Krystyna.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Around the world
Kista has relatives in 4 languages. Lines run from its Danish roots to each of them.
Danishwhere Kista comes from · 1 name
Nicknames & forms 1
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 2
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 3
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
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>99% girls