Kirsten
Kirsten is permitted as male and female first name. Today it is used mostly female. When used for a male person has in Germany according to the current naming rights for a second, unique male first name be added.
Origin and Meaning
Kirsten is a Scandinavian variant of Christine. It means as much as the Christian, the faithfulness of God, the anointed of Christ. Originally the name Kirsten was just like Evelyn a man's name as a variant of Christian.
Name-day
- As a male name: May 14
- As a female name: November 6, December 15, July 24 (after St. Christina of Bolsena ) (depending on the origin of the name)
Famous names winners
- Kirsten Block ( b. 1960 ), German actress
- Kirsten Boie (* 1950), German writer
- Kirsten Bolm (* 1975), German track and field athlete
- Kirsten Bråten Berg ( born 1950 ), Norwegian folk singer
- Kirsten Bruhn (* 1969), German disabled athlete
- Kirsten Boettner (* 1963), German politician
- Kirsten Clark ( born 1977 ), American ski racer
- Kirsten Dene (* 1943), German actress
- Kirsten Dunst ( b. 1982 ), American - German actress
- Kirsten Emmelmann (* 1961), German track and field athlete
- Kirsten Erl ( born 1966 ), German television judge
- Kirsten Fehr's ( b. 1961 ), bishop of the diocese of Hamburg and Lübeck
- Kirsten Flagstad (1895-1962), Norwegian soprano
- Kirsten Fuchs ( born 1977 ), German writer
- Kirsten Harms ( * 1956 ), German theater director
- Kirsten Heiberg (1907-1976), Norwegian singer
- Kirsten Heisig (1961-2010), German jurist
- Kirsten Holst (1936-2008), Danish writer
- Kirsten youth (* 1949), German journalist
- Kirsten Klose ( born 1977 ), German hammer thrower
- Kirsten Kruger ( born 1955 ), German table tennis player
- Kirsten Müller- Vahl (* 1964), German physician
- Kirsten Nelson, American actress
- Kirsten Niehuus (* 1959), Managing film promoting media board Berlin -Brandenburg GmbH
- Kirsten Prout (* 1990), Canadian actress
- Kirsten Tackmann (* 1960), German politician
- Kirsten Vangsness (born 1972 ), American actress
- Kirsten Walther (1933-1987), Danish actress
Well-known bearers of the name
- Kirsten Zoellner (* 1981), German basketball player
Variants
Kerstin, Kirstin, Keri, Kiki
- Female first name
- Male first name