Khrystal
Khrystal was last recorded in 2008, when 5 babies were given it; 351 Americans have been recorded with it between 1976 and 2008 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Khrystal by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Khrystal?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #19,085, in 2008; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
28 babies in 1992, the peak
Khrystal peaked in 1992, when 28 girls were given it, #3,822 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2008 | 5 | #19,085 | 2.6 |
| 2003 | 7 | #13,165 | 3.8 |
| 2002 | 10 | #9,896 | 5.6 |
| 2001 | 7 | #12,775 | 3.9 |
| 2000 | 6 | #14,090 | 3.3 |
| 1999 | 10 | #9,159 | 5.6 |
| 1998 | 13 | #7,332 | 7.4 |
| 1997 | 10 | #8,702 | 5.7 |
| 1996 | 19 | #5,178 | 10.8 |
| 1995 | 15 | #6,113 | 8.5 |
Every recorded year (27)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1994 | 20 | #4,922 | 11.2 |
| 1993 | 19 | #5,094 | 10.5 |
| 1992 | 28 | #3,822 | 15.2 |
| 1991 | 20 | #4,899 | 10.7 |
| 1990 | 26 | #3,951 | 13.7 |
| 1989 | 19 | #4,754 | 10.3 |
| 1988 | 13 | #6,066 | 7.3 |
| 1987 | 14 | #5,435 | 8.1 |
| 1986 | 12 | #5,955 | 7.0 |
| 1985 | 17 | #4,540 | 9.9 |
| 1984 | 13 | #5,362 | 7.7 |
| 1983 | 7 | #8,488 | 4.2 |
| 1982 | 9 | #7,174 | 5.3 |
| 1981 | 13 | #5,416 | 7.8 |
| 1980 | 5 | #11,197 | 3.0 |
| 1979 | 9 | #7,004 | 5.6 |
| 1976 | 5 | #10,004 | 3.4 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Khrystal a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Khrystal has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 27 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Khrystal: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Khrystal, and how old are they?
An estimated 342 Americans named Khrystal and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 35 years old and half are between 30 and 40. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 366 people named Khrystal (366 women and girls, 0 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 345 born in the U.S. The Census count is 6% 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 Khrystal?
Khrystal is a less common spelling of Crystal: SSA has recorded 351 Khrystal and 333,298 Crystal since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 422,677 babies since 1880, Khrystal is the fifth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 none of their 304 babies recorded by SSA was a Khrystal (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 Khrystal
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 Khrystal and names like it
- Compare Khrystal and CrystalBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sKhrystal peaked in 1992.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Khrystal since 1910.
- The top names of 1992The year the most babies were named Khrystal.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Khrystal alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with KMost given first.