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I guess I would choose Kristen if I had to. Kirsten looks like a mistake, and so many people pronounce it Curse-Ten, which I think is very unattractive.
In fact there is a little girl at my daughter's school whose name is Kurstyn. The poor child is like a cartoon character, with this round pasty face and big freckles and frizzy red hair that's almost orange. I've never seen hair like that on a little kid.

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I think Kirsten might be more popular now, at least for younger kids. I know of this Kurstyn and I think a friend of a friend has a Kirsten who's about ten, but I don't know of any Kristens that young. Kristen seems to have been a big hit in the late seventies and early eighties and then went downhill fast.

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I sort of think of Kristen as a bimbo name, but the kind of bimbo who is also an overachiever, if that's possible. I went to school with several Kristens and a couple of them were like that.

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I think of the names as very feminine, because I've never heard of a man being called either one. But I like Christina or Kristina much better.