Kristyl — girls' name

What the Data Says About Kristyl

The Social Security Administration has registered 211 babies named Kristyl between 1970 and 1996, spanning 27 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Kristyl currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 1996. The name reached its historical peak in 1984, when 18 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Kristyl performed strongest in the 1980s, accumulating 105 births during that ten-year window. Across the 3 decades of recorded activity, Kristyl shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 6 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Texas. In total, SSA state-level files list Kristyl in 2 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Kristyl in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 211 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.