Kristal
Kristal was given to 14 girls in 2025, #7,696 among girls’ names; 12,079 Americans have been recorded with it since 1951 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 11,600 Americans named Kristal and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (96% of everyone recorded); the median is 42 years old and half are between 33 and 48.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Kristal by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Kristal?
#7,696 among girls’ names, 2025
Kristal fell from #5,047 in 2015 to #7,696 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 15.1 to 8.7 per million.
582 babies in 1982, the peak
Kristal peaked in 1982, when 582 girls were given it, #399 among girls’ names. The 14 births of 2025 are 2% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 14 | #7,696 | 0.01 |
| 2024 | 11 | #9,268 | 0.01 |
| 2023 | 13 | #8,291 | 0.01 |
| 2022 | 18 | #6,586 | 0.01 |
| 2021 | 19 | #6,291 | 0.01 |
| 2020 | 22 | #5,575 | 0.01 |
| 2019 | 25 | #5,235 | 0.01 |
| 2018 | 25 | #5,242 | 0.01 |
| 2017 | 32 | #4,438 | 0.02 |
| 2016 | 39 | #3,893 | 0.02 |
Every recorded year (75)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 27 | #5,047 | 0.02 |
| 2014 | 40 | #3,814 | 0.02 |
| 2013 | 54 | #3,062 | 0.03 |
| 2012 | 72 | #2,531 | 0.04 |
| 2011 | 70 | #2,573 | 0.04 |
| 2010 | 85 | #2,268 | 0.05 |
| 2009 | 89 | #2,218 | 0.05 |
| 2008 | 96 | #2,117 | 0.05 |
| 2007 | 106 | #1,947 | 0.06 |
| 2006 | 88 | #2,197 | 0.05 |
| 2005 | 118 | #1,685 | 0.06 |
| 2004 | 134 | #1,505 | 0.07 |
| 2003 | 122 | #1,583 | 0.07 |
| 2002 | 133 | #1,436 | 0.07 |
| 2001 | 141 | #1,357 | 0.08 |
| 2000 | 139 | #1,352 | 0.08 |
| 1999 | 155 | #1,224 | 0.09 |
| 1998 | 145 | #1,254 | 0.08 |
| 1997 | 166 | #1,128 | 0.10 |
| 1996 | 175 | #1,057 | 0.10 |
| 1995 | 205 | #920 | 0.12 |
| 1994 | 199 | #939 | 0.11 |
| 1993 | 232 | #844 | 0.13 |
| 1992 | 230 | #859 | 0.12 |
| 1991 | 273 | #755 | 0.15 |
| 1990 | 307 | #689 | 0.16 |
| 1989 | 312 | #655 | 0.17 |
| 1988 | 320 | #622 | 0.18 |
| 1987 | 356 | #562 | 0.20 |
| 1986 | 386 | #529 | 0.23 |
| 1985 | 452 | #469 | 0.26 |
| 1984 | 490 | #429 | 0.29 |
| 1983 | 545 | #400 | 0.33 |
| 1982 | 582 | #399 | 0.34 |
| 1981 | 494 | #430 | 0.30 |
| 1980 | 401 | #505 | 0.24 |
| 1979 | 425 | #479 | 0.26 |
| 1978 | 365 | #512 | 0.24 |
| 1977 | 330 | #542 | 0.22 |
| 1976 | 262 | #606 | 0.18 |
| 1975 | 236 | #649 | 0.16 |
| 1974 | 217 | #681 | 0.15 |
| 1973 | 246 | #621 | 0.17 |
| 1972 | 250 | #622 | 0.16 |
| 1971 | 260 | #638 | 0.16 |
| 1970 | 197 | #751 | 0.11 |
| 1969 | 150 | #849 | 0.09 |
| 1968 | 159 | #798 | 0.10 |
| 1967 | 99 | #1,037 | 0.06 |
| 1966 | 93 | #1,092 | 0.05 |
| 1965 | 91 | #1,103 | 0.05 |
| 1964 | 77 | #1,259 | 0.04 |
| 1963 | 88 | #1,165 | 0.05 |
| 1962 | 66 | #1,369 | 0.03 |
| 1961 | 58 | #1,472 | 0.03 |
| 1960 | 72 | #1,296 | 0.04 |
| 1959 | 54 | #1,469 | 0.03 |
| 1958 | 29 | #2,091 | 0.01 |
| 1957 | 22 | #2,452 | 0.01 |
| 1956 | 21 | #2,498 | 0.01 |
| 1955 | 17 | #2,778 | 0.01 |
| 1954 | 13 | #3,239 | 0.01 |
| 1953 | 10 | #3,839 | 0.01 |
| 1952 | 8 | #4,305 | under 0.01 |
| 1951 | 7 | #4,606 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Kristal a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Kristal has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 75 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Kristal: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Kristal, and how old are they?
11,600 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 96% of the 12,079 Americans ever recorded as Kristal. The median Kristal alive today is 42 years old; half are between 33 and 48.
The 2020 Census counted 10,596 people named Kristal (10,560 women and girls, 36 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 11,611 born in the U.S. The Census count is 9% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 457 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 3,540 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 5,390 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,840 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 337 |
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 Kristal born?
The states with the most babies named Kristal are California, Texas and New York, with 42% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 1,660 | not ranked | 1.1× |
| Texas | 1,453 | #3,131 | 1.5× |
| New York | 720 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Florida | 524 | not ranked | 1.1× |
| Illinois | 438 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Michigan | 437 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| Ohio | 339 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| North Carolina | 244 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Pennsylvania | 238 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Louisiana | 229 | not ranked | 1.0× |
Where Kristal is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Kristal is most over-represented in Texas: since 1951 it was given 1.5 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 Kristal with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
How common is the spelling Kristal?
Kristal is a less common spelling of Crystal: SSA has recorded 12,079 Kristal and 333,298 Crystal since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 442,194 babies since 1880, Kristal is the fourth most given (2.7% of them). In 2025 it was given to 14 of their 411 babies (3.4%), the sixth 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 Kristal
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 Kristal and names like it
- Compare Kristal and CrystalBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1980sKristal peaked in 1982.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Kristal since 1910.
- The top names of 1982The year the most babies were named Kristal.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Kristal alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with KMost given first.