Cristel
Cristel was given to 37 girls in 2025, #3,922 among girls’ names; 1,037 Americans have been recorded with it since 1930 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,010 Americans named Cristel and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 15 years old and half are between 7 and 32.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Cristel by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Cristel?
#3,922 among girls’ names, 2025
Cristel rose from #4,884 in 2015 to #3,922 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 15.7 to 23.0 per million.
95 babies in 2011, the peak
Cristel peaked in 2011, when 95 girls were given it, #2,046 among girls’ names. The 37 births of 2025 are 39% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 37 | #3,922 | 23.0 |
| 2024 | 49 | #3,241 | 30.2 |
| 2023 | 49 | #3,287 | 30.5 |
| 2022 | 50 | #3,231 | 30.5 |
| 2021 | 35 | #4,114 | 21.3 |
| 2020 | 28 | #4,666 | 17.3 |
| 2019 | 23 | #5,474 | 13.7 |
| 2018 | 23 | #5,492 | 13.5 |
| 2017 | 22 | #5,702 | 12.7 |
| 2016 | 55 | #3,021 | 31.0 |
Every recorded year (60)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 28 | #4,884 | 15.7 |
| 2014 | 17 | #7,066 | 9.5 |
| 2013 | 24 | #5,524 | 13.7 |
| 2012 | 33 | #4,405 | 18.7 |
| 2011 | 95 | #2,046 | 54.0 |
| 2010 | 31 | #4,633 | 17.4 |
| 2009 | 17 | #7,409 | 9.3 |
| 2008 | 10 | #10,982 | 5.3 |
| 2007 | 8 | #12,944 | 4.2 |
| 2006 | 20 | #6,419 | 10.5 |
| 2005 | 14 | #7,986 | 7.6 |
| 2004 | 21 | #5,794 | 11.4 |
| 2003 | 7 | #12,700 | 3.8 |
| 2002 | 6 | #13,987 | 3.3 |
| 2001 | 10 | #9,529 | 5.6 |
| 2000 | 6 | #13,541 | 3.3 |
| 1999 | 9 | #9,660 | 5.1 |
| 1998 | 10 | #8,717 | 5.7 |
| 1997 | 9 | #9,181 | 5.2 |
| 1996 | 10 | #8,286 | 5.7 |
| 1995 | 7 | #10,753 | 4.0 |
| 1994 | 9 | #8,982 | 5.0 |
| 1993 | 10 | #8,193 | 5.5 |
| 1992 | 8 | #9,672 | 4.3 |
| 1991 | 11 | #7,515 | 5.9 |
| 1990 | 8 | #9,443 | 4.2 |
| 1989 | 17 | #5,091 | 9.2 |
| 1988 | 10 | #7,232 | 5.6 |
| 1987 | 6 | #10,106 | 3.5 |
| 1986 | 5 | #11,306 | 2.9 |
| 1985 | 7 | #8,534 | 4.1 |
| 1984 | 9 | #6,929 | 5.3 |
| 1983 | 5 | #10,607 | 3.0 |
| 1982 | 10 | #6,450 | 5.9 |
| 1981 | 12 | #5,637 | 7.2 |
| 1980 | 11 | #5,991 | 6.6 |
| 1979 | 11 | #5,828 | 6.9 |
| 1978 | 14 | #4,727 | 9.1 |
| 1977 | 13 | #4,990 | 8.5 |
| 1976 | 19 | #3,565 | 13.0 |
| 1975 | 7 | #7,311 | 4.8 |
| 1974 | 12 | #4,779 | 8.2 |
| 1973 | 11 | #4,936 | 7.5 |
| 1972 | 12 | #4,573 | 7.9 |
| 1971 | 9 | #5,620 | 5.4 |
| 1970 | 6 | #7,230 | 3.4 |
| 1967 | 5 | #6,981 | 3.0 |
| 1960 | 7 | #5,271 | 3.5 |
| 1957 | 5 | #6,252 | 2.4 |
| 1930 | 5 | #4,689 | 4.4 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Cristel a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Cristel has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 60 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Cristel: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Cristel, and how old are they?
1,010 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 1,037 Americans ever recorded as Cristel. The median Cristel alive today is 15 years old; half are between 7 and 32.
The 2020 Census counted 1,111 people named Cristel (1,084 women and girls, 27 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 779 born in the U.S. The Census count is 43% above that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 10 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 122 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 140 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 303 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 437 |
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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 367,515 babies since 1880, Cristel is the sixth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 37 of their 334 babies (11%), the third 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 Cristel
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 Cristel and names like it
- Compare Cristel and CrystalBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sCristel peaked in 2011.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Cristel since 1910.
- The top names of 2011The year the most babies were named Cristel.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Cristel alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with CMost given first.