Cristal
Cristal was given to 37 girls in 2025, #3,921 among girls’ names; 15,936 Americans have been recorded with it since 1947 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 15,500 Americans named Cristal and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (97% of everyone recorded); the median is 30 years old and half are between 22 and 38.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Cristal by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Cristal?
#3,921 among girls’ names, 2025
Cristal fell from #1,986 in 2015 to #3,921 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 56.0 to 23.0 per million.
679 babies in 1991, the peak
Cristal peaked in 1991, when 679 girls were given it, #377 among girls’ names. The 37 births of 2025 are 5% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 37 | #3,921 | 0.02 |
| 2024 | 68 | #2,587 | 0.04 |
| 2023 | 51 | #3,195 | 0.03 |
| 2022 | 45 | #3,487 | 0.03 |
| 2021 | 45 | #3,450 | 0.03 |
| 2020 | 52 | #3,066 | 0.03 |
| 2019 | 60 | #2,791 | 0.04 |
| 2018 | 88 | #2,150 | 0.05 |
| 2017 | 91 | #2,116 | 0.05 |
| 2016 | 90 | #2,154 | 0.05 |
Every recorded year (76)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 100 | #1,986 | 0.06 |
| 2014 | 117 | #1,768 | 0.07 |
| 2013 | 157 | #1,435 | 0.09 |
| 2012 | 188 | #1,274 | 0.11 |
| 2011 | 231 | #1,068 | 0.13 |
| 2010 | 210 | #1,157 | 0.12 |
| 2009 | 312 | #880 | 0.17 |
| 2008 | 388 | #759 | 0.21 |
| 2007 | 426 | #688 | 0.22 |
| 2006 | 436 | #662 | 0.23 |
| 2005 | 459 | #615 | 0.25 |
| 2004 | 510 | #562 | 0.28 |
| 2003 | 405 | #655 | 0.22 |
| 2002 | 408 | #625 | 0.23 |
| 2001 | 477 | #552 | 0.26 |
| 2000 | 484 | #536 | 0.27 |
| 1999 | 441 | #570 | 0.25 |
| 1998 | 480 | #526 | 0.27 |
| 1997 | 484 | #505 | 0.28 |
| 1996 | 541 | #463 | 0.31 |
| 1995 | 520 | #474 | 0.30 |
| 1994 | 550 | #461 | 0.31 |
| 1993 | 491 | #503 | 0.27 |
| 1992 | 571 | #440 | 0.31 |
| 1991 | 679 | #377 | 0.36 |
| 1990 | 458 | #520 | 0.24 |
| 1989 | 392 | #567 | 0.21 |
| 1988 | 346 | #586 | 0.19 |
| 1987 | 390 | #523 | 0.22 |
| 1986 | 593 | #389 | 0.35 |
| 1985 | 248 | #705 | 0.14 |
| 1984 | 211 | #763 | 0.13 |
| 1983 | 206 | #774 | 0.12 |
| 1982 | 203 | #795 | 0.12 |
| 1981 | 159 | #939 | 0.10 |
| 1980 | 151 | #984 | 0.09 |
| 1979 | 147 | #975 | 0.09 |
| 1978 | 136 | #1,002 | 0.09 |
| 1977 | 143 | #966 | 0.09 |
| 1976 | 113 | #1,079 | 0.08 |
| 1975 | 126 | #980 | 0.09 |
| 1974 | 110 | #1,071 | 0.07 |
| 1973 | 108 | #1,068 | 0.07 |
| 1972 | 110 | #1,052 | 0.07 |
| 1971 | 137 | #939 | 0.08 |
| 1970 | 100 | #1,156 | 0.06 |
| 1969 | 71 | #1,359 | 0.04 |
| 1968 | 97 | #1,078 | 0.06 |
| 1967 | 44 | #1,740 | 0.03 |
| 1966 | 33 | #2,025 | 0.02 |
| 1965 | 36 | #1,918 | 0.02 |
| 1964 | 52 | #1,580 | 0.03 |
| 1963 | 34 | #2,024 | 0.02 |
| 1962 | 39 | #1,829 | 0.02 |
| 1961 | 40 | #1,812 | 0.02 |
| 1960 | 41 | #1,767 | 0.02 |
| 1959 | 30 | #2,061 | 0.01 |
| 1958 | 15 | #3,112 | 0.01 |
| 1957 | 11 | #3,737 | 0.01 |
| 1956 | 10 | #3,959 | under 0.01 |
| 1955 | 14 | #3,118 | 0.01 |
| 1954 | 8 | #4,349 | under 0.01 |
| 1953 | 7 | #4,664 | under 0.01 |
| 1952 | 9 | #3,863 | under 0.01 |
| 1950 | 6 | #4,836 | under 0.01 |
| 1947 | 5 | #5,448 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Cristal a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Cristal has been given almost only to girls: 55 boys in 76 years of records.
Girls and boys named Cristal: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Cristal, and how old are they?
15,500 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 97% of the 15,936 Americans ever recorded as Cristal. The median Cristal alive today is 30 years old; half are between 22 and 38.
The 2020 Census counted 14,499 people named Cristal (14,436 women and girls, 63 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 15,350 born in the U.S. The Census count is 6% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 268 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 1,560 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 6,440 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 6,270 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 995 |
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 Cristal born?
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 8 | #2,451 | 2.0× |
Where Cristal is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Cristal is most over-represented in California: since 1947 it was given 2.2 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 Cristal with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
How common is the spelling Cristal?
Cristal is a less common spelling of Crystal: SSA has recorded 15,936 Cristal and 333,298 Crystal since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 442,423 babies since 1880, Cristal is the third most given (3.6% of them). In 2025 it was given to 37 of their 411 babies (9.0%), again the third most given.
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 Cristal
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 Cristal and names like it
- Compare Cristal and CrystalBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sCristal peaked in 1991.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Cristal since 1910.
- The top names of 1991The year the most babies were named Cristal.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Cristal alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with CMost given first.