Crystel
Crystel was last recorded in 2023, when 6 babies were given it; 743 Americans have been recorded with it between 1900 and 2023 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Crystel by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Crystel?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #13,820, in 2023; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
41 babies in 2011, the peak
Crystel peaked in 2011, when 41 girls were given it, #3,737 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 6 | #13,820 | 3.7 |
| 2022 | 5 | #15,841 | 3.0 |
| 2020 | 5 | #15,652 | 3.1 |
| 2019 | 6 | #14,201 | 3.6 |
| 2018 | 6 | #14,192 | 3.5 |
| 2017 | 7 | #13,020 | 4.1 |
| 2016 | 12 | #9,016 | 6.8 |
| 2015 | 9 | #11,096 | 5.0 |
| 2014 | 9 | #11,190 | 5.0 |
| 2013 | 14 | #8,232 | 8.0 |
Every recorded year (61)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2012 | 13 | #8,741 | 7.4 |
| 2011 | 41 | #3,737 | 23.3 |
| 2010 | 11 | #9,932 | 6.2 |
| 2008 | 7 | #14,175 | 3.7 |
| 2007 | 6 | #15,934 | 3.1 |
| 2005 | 6 | #14,898 | 3.2 |
| 2004 | 8 | #11,842 | 4.4 |
| 2003 | 6 | #14,261 | 3.3 |
| 2002 | 5 | #15,982 | 2.8 |
| 2001 | 5 | #15,883 | 2.8 |
| 2000 | 8 | #10,956 | 4.4 |
| 1999 | 7 | #11,639 | 3.9 |
| 1998 | 6 | #12,804 | 3.4 |
| 1997 | 10 | #8,497 | 5.7 |
| 1996 | 9 | #8,966 | 5.1 |
| 1995 | 5 | #13,893 | 2.8 |
| 1994 | 15 | #6,044 | 8.4 |
| 1993 | 8 | #9,757 | 4.4 |
| 1992 | 14 | #6,372 | 7.6 |
| 1991 | 18 | #5,217 | 9.6 |
| 1990 | 20 | #4,728 | 10.5 |
| 1989 | 15 | #5,605 | 8.1 |
| 1988 | 21 | #4,195 | 11.8 |
| 1987 | 21 | #4,010 | 12.1 |
| 1986 | 14 | #5,231 | 8.2 |
| 1985 | 23 | #3,640 | 13.4 |
| 1984 | 18 | #4,193 | 10.7 |
| 1983 | 30 | #2,866 | 18.0 |
| 1982 | 27 | #3,189 | 15.9 |
| 1981 | 21 | #3,760 | 12.6 |
| 1980 | 18 | #4,180 | 10.8 |
| 1979 | 26 | #3,167 | 16.2 |
| 1978 | 12 | #5,275 | 7.8 |
| 1977 | 20 | #3,636 | 13.0 |
| 1976 | 19 | #3,566 | 13.0 |
| 1975 | 20 | #3,419 | 13.7 |
| 1974 | 10 | #5,424 | 6.8 |
| 1973 | 11 | #4,937 | 7.5 |
| 1972 | 12 | #4,574 | 7.9 |
| 1971 | 11 | #4,867 | 6.6 |
| 1970 | 13 | #4,275 | 7.4 |
| 1969 | 13 | #3,989 | 7.7 |
| 1967 | 7 | #5,571 | 4.2 |
| 1966 | 10 | #4,242 | 5.9 |
| 1965 | 6 | #5,935 | 3.4 |
| 1964 | 8 | #5,090 | 4.2 |
| 1960 | 7 | #5,272 | 3.5 |
| 1959 | 7 | #5,131 | 3.5 |
| 1958 | 6 | #5,538 | 3.0 |
| 1955 | 5 | #5,995 | 2.6 |
| 1900 | 5 | #1,994 | 16.7 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Crystel a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Crystel has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 61 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Crystel: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Crystel, and how old are they?
An estimated 709 Americans named Crystel and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (95% of everyone recorded); the median is 39 years old and half are between 24 and 48. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 709 people named Crystel (705 women and girls, 4 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 702 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1% above that prediction.
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).
How common is the spelling Crystel?
Crystel is a less common spelling of Kristel: SSA has recorded 743 Crystel and 2,992 Kristel since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 430,914 babies since 1880, Crystel is the seventh most given (<1% of them). In 2025 none of their 397 babies recorded by SSA was a Crystel (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
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 Crystel
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 Crystel and names like it
- Compare Crystel and KristelBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sCrystel peaked in 2011.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Crystel since 1910.
- The top names of 2011The year the most babies were named Crystel.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Crystel alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with CMost given first.