Entry № 5512 · Scandinavian origin

Kirsten Kirsten — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ KEER-sten /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Scandinavian
Meaning
"Follower of Christ (Kirsten Dunst; Kirsten Gillibrand)"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Medieval (Danish)

A name that means "follower of christ (kirsten dunst; kirsten gillibrand)".

Kirsten is the Danish-Norwegian form of Christine — from the Greek christianos (follower of Christ). Cannes Best Actress (2011, Melancholia). Kiersten Lewis — American basketball player.

Follower of Christ.

The name in its native script.

Kirsten
Transliteration
Kirsten
Pronunciation
/ ˈkɪər.stən /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Kirsten stands.

Kirsten does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Kirstens before her.

Real people
Kirsten Dunst
American actress.
born 1982
Kirsten Gillibrand
US Senator from New York.
born 1966
Kirsten Flagstad
Norwegian Wagnerian soprano.
1895 – 1962
In fiction
Mary Jane Watson
Raimi's Spider-Man.
2002

Names connected to Kirsten.

The number behind Kirsten.

6

The Nurturer

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Kirsten reduce to 6, The Nurturer. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.