Entry № 5515 · Scottish origin

Kirsty Kirsty — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ KEER-stee /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Scottish
Meaning
"Follower of Christ (Kirsty MacColl Fairytale of New York)"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Medieval (Scottish)

A name that means "follower of christ (kirsty maccoll fairytale of new york)".

Kirsty is the Scottish form of Kirstie — from the Latin Christiana (follower of Christ). Princess Kirsty — Scottish heritage naming.

Follower of Christ (Scottish).

The name in its native script.

Kirsty
Transliteration
Kirsty
Pronunciation
/ ˈkɪər.sti /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Kirsty stands.

Kirsty 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.

Kirstys before her.

Real people
Kirsty MacColl
British Fairytale of New York singer.
1959 – 2000
Kirsty Wark
Scottish BBC Newsnight presenter 1993-2024.
born 1955
In fiction
Kirsty
Scottish form of Christiana.

Names connected to Kirsty.

The number behind Kirsty.

3

The Communicator

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Kirsty reduce to 3, The Communicator. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.