Crystal
Crystal was given to 202 girls in 2025, #1,145 among girls’ names; 333,298 Americans have been recorded with it since 1884 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 314,000 Americans named Crystal and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (94% of everyone recorded); the median is 43 years old and half are between 37 and 48.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Crystal by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Crystal mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Crystal is “a female given name from English.”
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Crystal?
#1,145 among girls’ names, 2025
Crystal fell from #556 in 2015 to #1,145 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 0.31 to 0.13 per 1,000.
19,171 babies in 1982, the peak
Crystal peaked in 1982, when 19,171 babies were given it (19,099 girls, #9 among girls’ names). The 202 births of 2025 are 1% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 202 | #1,145 | 0.13 |
| 2024 | 205 | #1,172 | 0.13 |
| 2023 | 202 | #1,189 | 0.13 |
| 2022 | 250 | #1,026 | 0.15 |
| 2021 | 271 | #959 | 0.17 |
| 2020 | 316 | #857 | 0.20 |
| 2019 | 358 | #775 | 0.21 |
| 2018 | 399 | #716 | 0.23 |
| 2017 | 458 | #644 | 0.27 |
| 2016 | 544 | #572 | 0.31 |
Every recorded year (141)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 560 | #556 | 0.31 |
| 2014 | 663 | #477 | 0.37 |
| 2013 | 663 | #465 | 0.38 |
| 2012 | 818 | #385 | 0.46 |
| 2011 | 934 | #340 | 0.53 |
| 2010 | 1,006 | #317 | 0.57 |
| 2009 | 1,160 | #283 | 0.63 |
| 2008 | 1,367 | #252 | 0.72 |
| 2007 | 1,598 | #215 | 0.83 |
| 2006 | 1,744 | #201 | 0.92 |
| 2005 | 1,856 | #187 | 1.0 |
| 2004 | 2,034 | #163 | 1.1 |
| 2003 | 2,019 | #166 | 1.1 |
| 2002 | 2,144 | #154 | 1.2 |
| 2001 | 2,432 | #137 | 1.4 |
| 2000 | 2,551 | #132 | 1.4 |
| 1999 | 2,741 | #119 | 1.5 |
| 1998 | 3,174 | #110 | 1.8 |
| 1997 | 3,435 | #99 | 2.0 |
| 1996 | 3,786 | #92 | 2.2 |
| 1995 | 4,391 | #80 | 2.5 |
| 1994 | 5,199 | #64 | 2.9 |
| 1993 | 5,829 | #57 | 3.2 |
| 1992 | 6,598 | #50 | 3.6 |
| 1991 | 7,727 | #41 | 4.1 |
| 1990 | 8,218 | #39 | 4.3 |
| 1989 | 9,103 | #32 | 4.9 |
| 1988 | 10,101 | #28 | 5.7 |
| 1987 | 11,011 | #26 | 6.3 |
| 1986 | 12,689 | #25 | 7.4 |
| 1985 | 14,399 | #21 | 8.4 |
| 1984 | 16,560 | #12 | 9.8 |
| 1983 | 17,904 | #11 | 10.7 |
| 1982 | 19,099 | #9 | 11.3 |
| 1981 | 15,888 | #16 | 9.5 |
| 1980 | 14,253 | #18 | 8.6 |
| 1979 | 13,467 | #18 | 8.4 |
| 1978 | 12,594 | #18 | 8.2 |
| 1977 | 9,724 | #25 | 6.3 |
| 1976 | 6,946 | #36 | 4.7 |
| 1975 | 6,243 | #43 | 4.3 |
| 1974 | 5,622 | #49 | 3.8 |
| 1973 | 5,768 | #48 | 4.0 |
| 1972 | 5,044 | #59 | 3.3 |
| 1971 | 4,530 | #79 | 2.7 |
| 1970 | 3,819 | #101 | 2.2 |
| 1969 | 2,987 | #118 | 1.8 |
| 1968 | 2,753 | #118 | 1.7 |
| 1967 | 2,522 | #139 | 1.5 |
| 1966 | 2,423 | #145 | 1.4 |
| 1965 | 2,543 | #146 | 1.4 |
| 1964 | 2,945 | #136 | 1.6 |
| 1963 | 2,581 | #156 | 1.3 |
| 1962 | 2,100 | #180 | 1.1 |
| 1961 | 2,117 | #182 | 1.0 |
| 1960 | 2,002 | #189 | 1.0 |
| 1959 | 1,552 | #212 | 0.77 |
| 1958 | 1,307 | #234 | 0.65 |
| 1957 | 1,410 | #224 | 0.69 |
| 1956 | 931 | #289 | 0.46 |
| 1955 | 888 | #290 | 0.45 |
| 1954 | 758 | #307 | 0.39 |
| 1953 | 676 | #315 | 0.36 |
| 1952 | 623 | #328 | 0.34 |
| 1951 | 550 | #337 | 0.31 |
| 1950 | 319 | #451 | 0.19 |
| 1949 | 270 | #489 | 0.16 |
| 1948 | 275 | #484 | 0.16 |
| 1947 | 325 | #453 | 0.18 |
| 1946 | 235 | #514 | 0.15 |
| 1945 | 117 | #690 | 0.09 |
| 1944 | 136 | #627 | 0.10 |
| 1943 | 158 | #599 | 0.11 |
| 1942 | 175 | #561 | 0.13 |
| 1941 | 128 | #626 | 0.11 |
| 1940 | 102 | #686 | 0.09 |
| 1939 | 80 | #765 | 0.07 |
| 1938 | 83 | #765 | 0.08 |
| 1937 | 80 | #762 | 0.08 |
| 1936 | 81 | #740 | 0.08 |
| 1935 | 88 | #717 | 0.08 |
| 1934 | 98 | #676 | 0.09 |
| 1933 | 68 | #809 | 0.07 |
| 1932 | 75 | #782 | 0.07 |
| 1931 | 82 | #743 | 0.08 |
| 1930 | 81 | #781 | 0.07 |
| 1929 | 99 | #704 | 0.09 |
| 1928 | 91 | #743 | 0.08 |
| 1927 | 91 | #758 | 0.08 |
| 1926 | 97 | #735 | 0.08 |
| 1925 | 122 | #668 | 0.10 |
| 1924 | 100 | #736 | 0.08 |
| 1923 | 109 | #701 | 0.09 |
| 1922 | 117 | #674 | 0.10 |
| 1921 | 137 | #630 | 0.11 |
| 1920 | 123 | #652 | 0.10 |
| 1919 | 113 | #656 | 0.10 |
| 1918 | 142 | #597 | 0.12 |
| 1917 | 171 | #506 | 0.16 |
| 1916 | 143 | #562 | 0.14 |
| 1915 | 138 | #541 | 0.14 |
| 1914 | 85 | #626 | 0.11 |
| 1913 | 79 | #573 | 0.13 |
| 1912 | 88 | #516 | 0.16 |
| 1911 | 48 | #617 | 0.11 |
| 1910 | 60 | #529 | 0.15 |
| 1909 | 40 | #615 | 0.12 |
| 1908 | 50 | #513 | 0.15 |
| 1907 | 35 | #631 | 0.11 |
| 1906 | 37 | #578 | 0.13 |
| 1905 | 63 | #426 | 0.22 |
| 1904 | 53 | #445 | 0.19 |
| 1903 | 32 | #579 | 0.12 |
| 1902 | 28 | #625 | 0.11 |
| 1901 | 29 | #578 | 0.12 |
| 1900 | 27 | #692 | 0.09 |
| 1899 | 34 | #509 | 0.15 |
| 1898 | 26 | #636 | 0.10 |
| 1897 | 18 | #742 | 0.08 |
| 1896 | 20 | #709 | 0.08 |
| 1895 | 17 | #777 | 0.07 |
| 1894 | 16 | #755 | 0.07 |
| 1893 | 17 | #722 | 0.08 |
| 1892 | 11 | #913 | 0.05 |
| 1891 | 17 | #645 | 0.09 |
| 1890 | 9 | #952 | 0.05 |
| 1889 | 7 | #1,042 | 0.04 |
| 1888 | 10 | #849 | 0.06 |
| 1886 | 8 | #848 | 0.06 |
| 1885 | 6 | #945 | 0.05 |
| 1884 | 11 | #645 | 0.09 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Crystal a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Crystal has been given almost only to girls: 1,184 boys in 141 years of records.
Girls and boys named Crystal: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Crystal, and how old are they?
314,000 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 94% of the 333,298 Americans ever recorded as Crystal. The median Crystal alive today is 43 years old; half are between 37 and 48.
The 2020 Census counted 274,101 people named Crystal (273,686 women and girls, 415 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 317,136 born in the U.S. The Census count is 14% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 603 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 18,100 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 95,400 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 164,000 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 30,700 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 5,060 |
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 Crystal born?
The states with the most babies named Crystal are California, Texas and New York, with 29% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 41,188 | #1,005 | 1.0× |
| Texas | 34,715 | #667 | 1.3× |
| New York | 18,265 | #915 | 0.8× |
| North Carolina | 15,005 | #1,508 | 1.7× |
| Illinois | 13,987 | #1,281 | 0.8× |
| Florida | 13,440 | #1,069 | 1.0× |
| Ohio | 13,012 | #1,507 | 0.8× |
| Pennsylvania | 12,059 | #1,138 | 0.8× |
| Michigan | 11,041 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Virginia | 9,997 | #1,073 | 1.3× |
Where Crystal is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Crystal is most over-represented in North Carolina: since 1910 it was given 1.7 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 Crystal 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 455,578 babies since 1880, Crystal is the most given (73% of them). In 2025 it was given to 202 of their 386 babies (52%), again the 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 Crystal
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 Crystal and names like it
- Compare Crystal and KrystalBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1980sCrystal peaked in 1982.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Crystal since 1910.
- English namesWiktionary’s origin for Crystal: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 1982The year the most babies were named Crystal.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Crystal alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with CMost given first.