Christal
Christal was given to 13 girls in 2025, #7,972 among girls’ names; 9,710 Americans have been recorded with it since 1913 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 9,050 Americans named Christal and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (93% of everyone recorded); the median is 45 years old and half are between 35 and 53.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Christal by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Christal?
#7,972 among girls’ names, 2025
Christal fell from #5,325 in 2015 to #7,972 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 14.0 to 8.1 per million.
352 babies in 1978, the peak
Christal peaked in 1978, when 352 girls were given it, #525 among girls’ names. The 13 births of 2025 are 4% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 13 | #7,972 | 0.01 |
| 2024 | 8 | #11,335 | under 0.01 |
| 2023 | 11 | #9,105 | 0.01 |
| 2022 | 15 | #7,349 | 0.01 |
| 2021 | 12 | #8,586 | 0.01 |
| 2020 | 11 | #9,067 | 0.01 |
| 2019 | 13 | #8,227 | 0.01 |
| 2018 | 14 | #7,850 | 0.01 |
| 2017 | 23 | #5,544 | 0.01 |
| 2016 | 25 | #5,318 | 0.01 |
Every recorded year (96)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 25 | #5,325 | 0.01 |
| 2014 | 34 | #4,287 | 0.02 |
| 2013 | 36 | #4,086 | 0.02 |
| 2012 | 42 | #3,727 | 0.02 |
| 2011 | 53 | #3,140 | 0.03 |
| 2010 | 56 | #3,016 | 0.03 |
| 2009 | 45 | #3,574 | 0.02 |
| 2008 | 79 | #2,421 | 0.04 |
| 2007 | 72 | #2,573 | 0.04 |
| 2006 | 78 | #2,402 | 0.04 |
| 2005 | 63 | #2,674 | 0.03 |
| 2004 | 89 | #2,046 | 0.05 |
| 2003 | 80 | #2,169 | 0.04 |
| 2002 | 66 | #2,419 | 0.04 |
| 2001 | 102 | #1,749 | 0.06 |
| 2000 | 90 | #1,884 | 0.05 |
| 1999 | 89 | #1,785 | 0.05 |
| 1998 | 123 | #1,392 | 0.07 |
| 1997 | 120 | #1,399 | 0.07 |
| 1996 | 113 | #1,449 | 0.06 |
| 1995 | 108 | #1,473 | 0.06 |
| 1994 | 133 | #1,275 | 0.07 |
| 1993 | 144 | #1,201 | 0.08 |
| 1992 | 167 | #1,080 | 0.09 |
| 1991 | 162 | #1,104 | 0.09 |
| 1990 | 175 | #1,027 | 0.09 |
| 1989 | 153 | #1,088 | 0.08 |
| 1988 | 179 | #941 | 0.10 |
| 1987 | 206 | #844 | 0.12 |
| 1986 | 211 | #797 | 0.12 |
| 1985 | 258 | #690 | 0.15 |
| 1984 | 267 | #653 | 0.16 |
| 1983 | 313 | #574 | 0.19 |
| 1982 | 347 | #546 | 0.20 |
| 1981 | 292 | #622 | 0.18 |
| 1980 | 293 | #623 | 0.18 |
| 1979 | 337 | #552 | 0.21 |
| 1978 | 352 | #525 | 0.23 |
| 1977 | 346 | #529 | 0.23 |
| 1976 | 300 | #560 | 0.20 |
| 1975 | 276 | #588 | 0.19 |
| 1974 | 264 | #598 | 0.18 |
| 1973 | 306 | #547 | 0.21 |
| 1972 | 236 | #645 | 0.16 |
| 1971 | 233 | #670 | 0.14 |
| 1970 | 196 | #753 | 0.11 |
| 1969 | 188 | #739 | 0.11 |
| 1968 | 114 | #975 | 0.07 |
| 1967 | 113 | #959 | 0.07 |
| 1966 | 110 | #974 | 0.07 |
| 1965 | 101 | #1,043 | 0.06 |
| 1964 | 122 | #950 | 0.06 |
| 1963 | 84 | #1,188 | 0.04 |
| 1962 | 85 | #1,193 | 0.04 |
| 1961 | 82 | #1,217 | 0.04 |
| 1960 | 75 | #1,267 | 0.04 |
| 1959 | 78 | #1,207 | 0.04 |
| 1958 | 69 | #1,274 | 0.03 |
| 1957 | 73 | #1,229 | 0.04 |
| 1956 | 53 | #1,454 | 0.03 |
| 1955 | 86 | #1,087 | 0.04 |
| 1954 | 83 | #1,078 | 0.04 |
| 1953 | 66 | #1,189 | 0.04 |
| 1952 | 60 | #1,226 | 0.03 |
| 1951 | 52 | #1,293 | 0.03 |
| 1950 | 24 | #1,960 | 0.01 |
| 1949 | 9 | #3,667 | 0.01 |
| 1948 | 9 | #3,634 | 0.01 |
| 1947 | 12 | #3,081 | 0.01 |
| 1946 | 11 | #3,057 | 0.01 |
| 1945 | 6 | #4,103 | under 0.01 |
| 1943 | 5 | #4,793 | under 0.01 |
| 1932 | 8 | #3,320 | 0.01 |
| 1930 | 6 | #4,117 | 0.01 |
| 1929 | 6 | #4,148 | 0.01 |
| 1926 | 7 | #3,946 | 0.01 |
| 1925 | 7 | #4,094 | 0.01 |
| 1922 | 7 | #4,078 | 0.01 |
| 1921 | 5 | #5,244 | under 0.01 |
| 1920 | 6 | #4,480 | 0.01 |
| 1919 | 5 | #4,948 | under 0.01 |
| 1918 | 7 | #3,938 | 0.01 |
| 1917 | 6 | #4,185 | 0.01 |
| 1915 | 5 | #4,398 | 0.01 |
| 1914 | 6 | #3,256 | 0.01 |
| 1913 | 5 | #3,267 | 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Christal a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Christal has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 96 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Christal: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Christal, and how old are they?
9,050 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 93% of the 9,710 Americans ever recorded as Christal. The median Christal alive today is 45 years old; half are between 35 and 53.
The 2020 Census counted 8,431 people named Christal (8,387 women and girls, 44 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 9,153 born in the U.S. The Census count is 8% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 8 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 919 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 3,520 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 3,130 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,230 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 238 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Christal born?
The states with the most babies named Christal are California, Texas and New York, with 38% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 1,010 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| Texas | 885 | not ranked | 1.2× |
| New York | 602 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Florida | 373 | not ranked | 1.0× |
| Ohio | 365 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Michigan | 333 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Illinois | 283 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| North Carolina | 280 | not ranked | 1.1× |
| Pennsylvania | 267 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Louisiana | 201 | not ranked | 1.0× |
Where Christal is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Christal is most over-represented in Texas: since 1913 it was given 1.2 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Christal with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 30,180 babies since 1880, Christal is the second most given (32% of them). In 2025 it was given to 13 of their 21 babies (62%), the most given that year.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Christal
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Christal and names like it
- Compare Christal and ChrystalBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1970sChristal peaked in 1978.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Christal since 1910.
- The top names of 1978The year the most babies were named Christal.
- The names of Generation XMost people named Christal alive today were born 1965-1980.
- Names starting with CMost given first.