Cristela
Cristela was given to 6 girls in 2025, #13,582 among girls’ names; 623 Americans have been recorded with it since 1917 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Cristela by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Cristela?
#13,582 among girls’ names, 2025
Cristela entered the girls’ rankings after 2015 and stood at #13,582 in 2025.
17 babies in 1992, the peak
Cristela peaked in 1992, when 17 girls were given it, #5,527 among girls’ names. The 6 births of 2025 are 35% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 6 | #13,582 | 3.7 |
| 2017 | 9 | #10,888 | 5.2 |
| 2016 | 6 | #14,736 | 3.4 |
| 2014 | 5 | #17,155 | 2.8 |
| 2011 | 6 | #15,252 | 3.4 |
| 2009 | 5 | #17,935 | 2.7 |
| 2008 | 5 | #18,150 | 2.6 |
| 2005 | 6 | #14,896 | 3.2 |
| 2004 | 8 | #11,840 | 4.4 |
| 2002 | 5 | #15,979 | 2.8 |
Every recorded year (67)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2001 | 6 | #13,896 | 3.3 |
| 2000 | 9 | #10,067 | 5.0 |
| 1999 | 14 | #6,903 | 7.9 |
| 1998 | 11 | #8,116 | 6.2 |
| 1997 | 8 | #9,996 | 4.6 |
| 1996 | 13 | #6,797 | 7.4 |
| 1995 | 11 | #7,626 | 6.3 |
| 1994 | 10 | #8,259 | 5.6 |
| 1993 | 10 | #8,194 | 5.5 |
| 1992 | 17 | #5,527 | 9.2 |
| 1991 | 9 | #8,739 | 4.8 |
| 1990 | 8 | #9,444 | 4.2 |
| 1989 | 13 | #6,226 | 7.1 |
| 1988 | 15 | #5,379 | 8.4 |
| 1987 | 10 | #6,896 | 5.8 |
| 1986 | 7 | #8,726 | 4.1 |
| 1985 | 12 | #5,742 | 7.0 |
| 1984 | 14 | #5,004 | 8.3 |
| 1983 | 12 | #5,524 | 7.2 |
| 1982 | 5 | #10,828 | 3.0 |
| 1981 | 14 | #5,021 | 8.4 |
| 1980 | 9 | #6,906 | 5.4 |
| 1979 | 15 | #4,666 | 9.3 |
| 1978 | 15 | #4,489 | 9.8 |
| 1977 | 14 | #4,707 | 9.1 |
| 1976 | 7 | #7,444 | 4.8 |
| 1975 | 7 | #7,312 | 4.8 |
| 1974 | 11 | #5,065 | 7.5 |
| 1973 | 8 | #6,198 | 5.5 |
| 1972 | 11 | #4,845 | 7.2 |
| 1971 | 8 | #6,110 | 4.8 |
| 1970 | 12 | #4,545 | 6.9 |
| 1969 | 11 | #4,481 | 6.5 |
| 1968 | 14 | #3,644 | 8.5 |
| 1967 | 12 | #3,878 | 7.3 |
| 1966 | 7 | #5,370 | 4.1 |
| 1965 | 11 | #3,994 | 6.2 |
| 1964 | 9 | #4,689 | 4.7 |
| 1963 | 15 | #3,361 | 7.8 |
| 1962 | 11 | #4,051 | 5.6 |
| 1961 | 11 | #4,058 | 5.4 |
| 1960 | 9 | #4,510 | 4.5 |
| 1959 | 9 | #4,348 | 4.4 |
| 1957 | 9 | #4,271 | 4.4 |
| 1956 | 5 | #6,121 | 2.5 |
| 1955 | 5 | #5,993 | 2.6 |
| 1953 | 13 | #3,143 | 6.9 |
| 1951 | 10 | #3,529 | 5.6 |
| 1950 | 5 | #5,450 | 2.9 |
| 1949 | 10 | #3,426 | 5.8 |
| 1948 | 8 | #3,942 | 4.7 |
| 1946 | 6 | #4,529 | 3.8 |
| 1944 | 7 | #3,760 | 5.3 |
| 1940 | 5 | #4,486 | 4.4 |
| 1936 | 5 | #4,317 | 4.8 |
| 1931 | 5 | #4,454 | 4.7 |
| 1917 | 5 | #4,735 | 4.6 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Cristela a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Cristela has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 67 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Cristela: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Cristela, and how old are they?
An estimated 557 Americans named Cristela and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (89% of everyone recorded); the median is 45 years old and half are between 32 and 59. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 1,042 people named Cristela (1,042 women and girls, 0 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 569 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1.8 times 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.
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 Cristela born?
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 291 | not ranked | 6.2× |
| California | 26 | not ranked | 0.4× |
Where Cristela is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Cristela is most over-represented in Texas: since 1917 it was given 6.2 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 Cristela 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 3 names spelled alike, given to 781 babies since 1880, Cristela is the most given (80% of them).
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 Cristela
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 Cristela and names like it
- Compare Cristela and CristellaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sCristela peaked in 1992.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Cristela since 1910.
- The top names of 1992The year the most babies were named Cristela.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Cristela alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with CMost given first.