Entry № 5514 · Scottish origin

Kirstie Kirstie — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ KEER-stee /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Scottish
Meaning
"Follower of Christ (Kirstie Alley, Cheers Emmy)"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Medieval (Scottish)

A name that means "follower of christ (kirstie alley, cheers emmy)".

Kirstie is the Scottish diminutive of Kirsten / Christine — from the Greek christianos ("follower of Christ"). Kirstie (2013) — TV Land sitcom. Kirstie is the warmer Scottish-vernacular form of the more formal Kirsten and Christine; it surged in the UK and US during the late 1980s and is now a vintage-of-the-80s revival candidate.

Follower of Christ.

The name in its native script.

Kirstie
Transliteration
Kirstie
Pronunciation
/ ˈkɜːr.sti /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Kirstie stands.

Kirstie 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.

Kirsties before her.

Real people
Kirstie Alley
American Emmy actress (Cheers).
1951 – 2022
Kirstie Maldonado
American singer (Pentatonix).
born 1992
In fiction
Rebecca Howe
Cheers.
1987

Names connected to Kirstie.

The number behind Kirstie.

1

The Leader

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Kirstie reduce to 1, The Leader. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.