Kerstin is a first name for girls.
Recently, the name Kerstin has been given only a handful of times a year and is therefore particularly rare, at least in the US. In recent years, not even one girl in 100,000 has been named Kerstin. That means that a girl named Kerstin is exceptional and may not meet another person with the same name her whole life. If you polled the whole US population – children, adults and seniors – you’d find less than one in 10,000 to be named Kerstin.
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 Kerstin. Girls named Kerstin have made themselves scarce. But some parents got a taste for it a few years ago: At No. 1,549 Kerstin ranked higher than ever before in 1998. By comparison, there have been 75 years in which the first name Kerstin 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 Kerstin 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 Kerstin was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
The odds of living in the same state as someone with the first name Kerstin are about the same as betting on heads or tails in a coin toss. This girl’s name is quite popular, but not equally so throughout the entire USA. You can meet girls and women with the name Kerstin in 20 states – that is about every second of all 50 states in the USA, for example in California, Florida, Georgia, Illinois or Indiana. In relation to the number of residents, the most women and girls with the first name Kerstin live in California – here, one in 86,703 bears this beautiful name. In comparison, if we look at all living women and girls in the whole country, only one in 244,330 will turn around if you call her first name Kerstin.
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 seven letters, the name Kerstin has a typical length for first names in the US. In fact, 26% of all common first names consist of exactly seven letters. 52% of all first names are shorter, while 22% have eight letters or more. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long. There are 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 Kerstin 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 Kerstin, you can simply say:
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Elephant
Rocket
Sun
Tiger
Igloo
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Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Kerstin
Kerstin
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. Kerstin sounds like this:
