Keirsten is a first name for girls.
There’s a good chance that a girl named Keirsten in a medium-sized town will be unique. That’s because only a few babies a year are named Keirsten in all of the US. Only about one in 100,000 girls is named Keirsten by her parents. In the ranking of most common girls names in recent years, Keirsten ranks at #10,029. That means there are 10,028 more common girls names, but there are also a few thousand that are even rarer. If you polled the whole US population – children, adults and seniors – you’d find less than one in 10,000 to be named Keirsten.
Do you know the feeling when you go to the zoo and the animal that is supposed to be in the enclosure is not there? You know it should be there, but you've never seen it? It's the same with Keirsten. Girls named Keirsten have made themselves scarce. But some parents got a taste for it a few years ago: At No. 1,949 Keirsten ranked higher than ever before in 1996. By comparison, there have been 94 years in which the first name Keirsten has not been given at all (or less than 5 times, which is the minimum number required for a name to be included in the statistics), most recently in 2022. In general, parents name their daughters Keirsten only once in a blue moon, so girls and women with this name can consider themselves exceptional!
In years where the graph has no value, the name Keirsten was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
The odds of living in the same statae as someone named Keirsten are about the same as meeting someone with blue eyes in the entire country – both odds are about 25 to 30 %. More precisely, the first name Keirsten is registered in 11 states, among which are California, Florida, Illinois, Indiana or Maryland. In proportion to the female population, most women and girls with the first name Keirsten live in Ohio, and even there the name is rather special – only one in 94,624 would turn around if you called the name Keirsten across Ohio.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter K is a real popular first letter for girls' names. That’s because 7.5% of all common girls’ names in the US begin with this letter. Only the first letters A, S and M are more common for girls' names.
With eight letters, the name Keirsten is long compared to other names. In fact, 14.5% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly eight letters. 78% of all first names are shorter, while only 8% of all boys’ and girls’ names use nine letters or even more. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long with no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.
That means that if 7.5% of all girls' names start with a K, this initial letter occurs more than twice as often as all 26 letters on average. Interesting detail: of all the girls' names that begin with a K, Karen is the most common.
If your name is Keirsten and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...
So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Keirsten, you can simply say:
Koala
Elephant
Igloo
Rocket
Sun
Tiger
Elephant
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Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
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Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
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In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.
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In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Keirsten sounds like this:
