Kristel
Kristel was given to 33 girls in 2025, #4,303 among girls’ names; 2,992 Americans have been recorded with it since 1952 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,870 Americans named Kristel and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (96% of everyone recorded); the median is 42 years old and half are between 19 and 48.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Kristel by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Kristel?
#4,303 among girls’ names, 2025
Kristel fell from #4,110 in 2015 to #4,303 in 2025 among girls’ names, although its share of girls born rose from 20.2 to 20.5 per million.
145 babies in 1982, the peak
Kristel peaked in 1982, when 145 girls were given it, #1,016 among girls’ names. The 33 births of 2025 are 23% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 33 | #4,303 | 20.5 |
| 2024 | 46 | #3,435 | 28.4 |
| 2023 | 66 | #2,660 | 41.1 |
| 2022 | 46 | #3,445 | 28.0 |
| 2021 | 35 | #4,137 | 21.3 |
| 2020 | 31 | #4,399 | 19.2 |
| 2019 | 40 | #3,753 | 23.8 |
| 2018 | 17 | #6,959 | 10.0 |
| 2017 | 24 | #5,454 | 13.9 |
| 2016 | 41 | #3,744 | 23.1 |
Every recorded year (72)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 36 | #4,110 | 20.2 |
| 2014 | 32 | #4,505 | 17.9 |
| 2013 | 27 | #5,075 | 15.4 |
| 2012 | 47 | #3,440 | 26.7 |
| 2011 | 122 | #1,712 | 69.4 |
| 2010 | 32 | #4,543 | 18.0 |
| 2009 | 23 | #6,005 | 12.5 |
| 2008 | 20 | #6,702 | 10.6 |
| 2007 | 17 | #7,589 | 8.8 |
| 2006 | 18 | #7,007 | 9.5 |
| 2005 | 17 | #7,008 | 9.2 |
| 2004 | 19 | #6,373 | 10.3 |
| 2003 | 18 | #6,451 | 9.9 |
| 2002 | 20 | #5,781 | 11.1 |
| 2001 | 19 | #5,952 | 10.6 |
| 2000 | 20 | #5,587 | 11.0 |
| 1999 | 12 | #7,987 | 6.8 |
| 1998 | 13 | #7,341 | 7.4 |
| 1997 | 22 | #4,743 | 12.6 |
| 1996 | 28 | #3,887 | 16.0 |
| 1995 | 21 | #4,766 | 11.9 |
| 1994 | 26 | #4,061 | 14.6 |
| 1993 | 33 | #3,378 | 18.2 |
| 1992 | 36 | #3,172 | 19.5 |
| 1991 | 50 | #2,490 | 26.7 |
| 1990 | 46 | #2,582 | 24.2 |
| 1989 | 57 | #2,150 | 30.9 |
| 1988 | 54 | #2,133 | 30.3 |
| 1987 | 35 | #2,816 | 20.1 |
| 1986 | 52 | #2,061 | 30.3 |
| 1985 | 87 | #1,441 | 50.6 |
| 1984 | 100 | #1,269 | 59.4 |
| 1983 | 129 | #1,075 | 77.2 |
| 1982 | 145 | #1,016 | 85.6 |
| 1981 | 129 | #1,085 | 77.3 |
| 1980 | 108 | #1,223 | 65.0 |
| 1979 | 78 | #1,509 | 48.6 |
| 1978 | 108 | #1,170 | 70.5 |
| 1977 | 83 | #1,363 | 54.1 |
| 1976 | 66 | #1,541 | 45.0 |
| 1975 | 57 | #1,680 | 39.1 |
| 1974 | 53 | #1,719 | 36.1 |
| 1973 | 72 | #1,384 | 49.4 |
| 1972 | 57 | #1,603 | 37.5 |
| 1971 | 47 | #1,866 | 28.2 |
| 1970 | 49 | #1,811 | 28.0 |
| 1969 | 36 | #2,116 | 21.3 |
| 1968 | 24 | #2,585 | 14.6 |
| 1967 | 26 | #2,401 | 15.7 |
| 1966 | 24 | #2,483 | 14.2 |
| 1965 | 26 | #2,374 | 14.7 |
| 1964 | 22 | #2,712 | 11.6 |
| 1963 | 16 | #3,252 | 8.3 |
| 1962 | 12 | #3,901 | 6.1 |
| 1961 | 19 | #2,896 | 9.4 |
| 1960 | 14 | #3,444 | 6.9 |
| 1959 | 8 | #4,823 | 4.0 |
| 1958 | 6 | #5,764 | 3.0 |
| 1956 | 11 | #3,799 | 5.5 |
| 1954 | 11 | #3,595 | 5.7 |
| 1953 | 12 | #3,369 | 6.4 |
| 1952 | 6 | #5,212 | 3.2 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Kristel a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Kristel has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 72 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Kristel: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Kristel, and how old are they?
2,870 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 96% of the 2,992 Americans ever recorded as Kristel. The median Kristel alive today is 42 years old; half are between 19 and 48.
The 2020 Census counted 2,997 people named Kristel (2,993 women and girls, 4 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 2,656 born in the U.S. The Census count is 13% above 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.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 114 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 857 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 995 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 435 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 471 |
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 Kristel born?
The states with the most babies named Kristel are California, Texas and New York, with 73% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 321 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| Texas | 270 | #3,581 | 1.1× |
| New York | 91 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Illinois | 34 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Florida | 27 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Michigan | 26 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| New Jersey | 24 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Virginia | 18 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Minnesota | 16 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| North Carolina | 15 | not ranked | 0.2× |
Where Kristel is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Kristel is most over-represented in Texas: since 1952 it was given 1.1 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 Kristel 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 109,593 babies since 1880, Kristel is the fourth most given (2.7% of them). In 2025 it was given to 33 of their 220 babies (15%), again the fourth 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 Kristel
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 Kristel and names like it
- Compare Kristel and KrystalBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1980sKristel peaked in 1982.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Kristel since 1910.
- The top names of 1982The year the most babies were named Kristel.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Kristel alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with KMost given first.