Kristle
Kristle was last recorded in 1998, when 9 babies were given it; 892 Americans have been recorded with it between 1964 and 1998 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Kristle by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Kristle?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #9,727, in 1998; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
97 babies in 1985, the peak
Kristle peaked in 1985, when 97 girls were given it, #1,355 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1998 | 9 | #9,727 | 5.1 |
| 1997 | 8 | #10,319 | 4.6 |
| 1996 | 11 | #7,868 | 6.3 |
| 1995 | 15 | #6,118 | 8.5 |
| 1994 | 13 | #6,885 | 7.3 |
| 1993 | 13 | #6,847 | 7.2 |
| 1992 | 13 | #6,857 | 7.1 |
| 1991 | 20 | #4,901 | 10.7 |
| 1990 | 38 | #2,982 | 20.0 |
| 1989 | 41 | #2,732 | 22.2 |
Every recorded year (34)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1988 | 36 | #2,898 | 20.2 |
| 1987 | 43 | #2,408 | 24.7 |
| 1986 | 60 | #1,874 | 35.0 |
| 1985 | 97 | #1,355 | 56.4 |
| 1984 | 62 | #1,758 | 36.8 |
| 1983 | 82 | #1,432 | 49.1 |
| 1982 | 78 | #1,528 | 46.1 |
| 1981 | 62 | #1,794 | 37.2 |
| 1980 | 18 | #4,222 | 10.8 |
| 1979 | 17 | #4,318 | 10.6 |
| 1978 | 12 | #5,361 | 7.8 |
| 1977 | 13 | #5,064 | 8.5 |
| 1976 | 16 | #4,051 | 10.9 |
| 1975 | 18 | #3,697 | 12.3 |
| 1974 | 23 | #3,046 | 15.7 |
| 1973 | 10 | #5,358 | 6.9 |
| 1972 | 8 | #6,256 | 5.3 |
| 1971 | 11 | #4,953 | 6.6 |
| 1970 | 8 | #6,070 | 4.6 |
| 1969 | 11 | #4,580 | 6.5 |
| 1968 | 5 | #7,582 | 3.0 |
| 1967 | 9 | #4,795 | 5.5 |
| 1966 | 5 | #7,083 | 3.0 |
| 1964 | 7 | #5,741 | 3.7 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Kristle a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Kristle has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 34 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Kristle: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Kristle, and how old are they?
An estimated 857 Americans named Kristle and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (96% of everyone recorded); the median is 42 years old and half are between 39 and 45. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 809 people named Kristle (801 women and girls, 8 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 867 born in the U.S. The Census count is 7% below 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).
Where are babies named Kristle born?
The states with the most babies named Kristle are California, Texas and New York, with 74% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 102 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| Texas | 38 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| New York | 31 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Illinois | 18 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Georgia | 12 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Michigan | 10 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Louisiana | 6 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Maryland | 5 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Mississippi | 5 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| North Carolina | 5 | not ranked | 0.2× |
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 Kristle 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 Kristle?
Kristle is a less common spelling of Krystle: SSA has recorded 892 Kristle and 12,982 Krystle since 1880.
Of these 6 names spelled alike, given to 15,578 babies since 1880, Kristle is the third most given (5.7% of them).
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 Kristle
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 Kristle and names like it
- Compare Kristle and KrystleBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1980sKristle peaked in 1985.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Kristle since 1910.
- The top names of 1985The year the most babies were named Kristle.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Kristle alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with KMost given first.