Krystal
Krystal was given to 88 girls in 2025, #2,135 among girls’ names; 75,376 Americans have been recorded with it since 1946 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 73,000 Americans named Krystal and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (97% of everyone recorded); the median is 39 years old and half are between 33 and 42.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Krystal by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Krystal mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Krystal is “a female given name from English, a re-spelling of Crystal.”
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Krystal?
#2,135 among girls’ names, 2025
Krystal fell from #1,121 in 2015 to #2,135 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 0.13 to 0.05 per 1,000.
5,960 babies in 1985, the peak
Krystal peaked in 1985, when 5,960 babies were given it (5,933 girls, #53 among girls’ names). The 88 births of 2025 are 1% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 88 | #2,135 | 0.05 |
| 2024 | 87 | #2,188 | 0.05 |
| 2023 | 116 | #1,769 | 0.07 |
| 2022 | 108 | #1,879 | 0.07 |
| 2021 | 139 | #1,519 | 0.08 |
| 2020 | 114 | #1,761 | 0.07 |
| 2019 | 153 | #1,448 | 0.09 |
| 2018 | 162 | #1,387 | 0.10 |
| 2017 | 206 | #1,187 | 0.12 |
| 2016 | 218 | #1,153 | 0.12 |
Every recorded year (80)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 228 | #1,121 | 0.13 |
| 2014 | 261 | #1,007 | 0.15 |
| 2013 | 301 | #858 | 0.17 |
| 2012 | 328 | #818 | 0.19 |
| 2011 | 364 | #757 | 0.21 |
| 2010 | 393 | #718 | 0.22 |
| 2009 | 455 | #651 | 0.25 |
| 2008 | 557 | #553 | 0.29 |
| 2007 | 619 | #511 | 0.32 |
| 2006 | 606 | #504 | 0.32 |
| 2005 | 719 | #428 | 0.39 |
| 2004 | 703 | #432 | 0.38 |
| 2003 | 736 | #412 | 0.40 |
| 2002 | 743 | #395 | 0.41 |
| 2001 | 795 | #373 | 0.44 |
| 2000 | 890 | #346 | 0.49 |
| 1999 | 929 | #329 | 0.52 |
| 1998 | 1,093 | #282 | 0.62 |
| 1997 | 1,188 | #247 | 0.68 |
| 1996 | 1,336 | #217 | 0.76 |
| 1995 | 1,566 | #189 | 0.89 |
| 1994 | 1,890 | #164 | 1.1 |
| 1993 | 2,211 | #142 | 1.2 |
| 1992 | 2,619 | #128 | 1.4 |
| 1991 | 2,957 | #112 | 1.6 |
| 1990 | 3,290 | #104 | 1.7 |
| 1989 | 3,787 | #82 | 2.1 |
| 1988 | 4,019 | #74 | 2.3 |
| 1987 | 4,378 | #70 | 2.5 |
| 1986 | 4,929 | #61 | 2.9 |
| 1985 | 5,933 | #53 | 3.4 |
| 1984 | 3,933 | #74 | 2.3 |
| 1983 | 3,716 | #78 | 2.2 |
| 1982 | 3,504 | #83 | 2.1 |
| 1981 | 2,134 | #131 | 1.3 |
| 1980 | 1,163 | #220 | 0.70 |
| 1979 | 1,164 | #224 | 0.73 |
| 1978 | 1,074 | #230 | 0.70 |
| 1977 | 847 | #282 | 0.55 |
| 1976 | 550 | #375 | 0.38 |
| 1975 | 485 | #417 | 0.33 |
| 1974 | 473 | #417 | 0.32 |
| 1973 | 480 | #412 | 0.33 |
| 1972 | 455 | #426 | 0.30 |
| 1971 | 384 | #497 | 0.23 |
| 1970 | 337 | #552 | 0.19 |
| 1969 | 234 | #655 | 0.14 |
| 1968 | 236 | #627 | 0.14 |
| 1967 | 172 | #752 | 0.10 |
| 1966 | 174 | #747 | 0.10 |
| 1965 | 178 | #752 | 0.10 |
| 1964 | 197 | #743 | 0.10 |
| 1963 | 152 | #850 | 0.08 |
| 1962 | 133 | #919 | 0.07 |
| 1961 | 123 | #974 | 0.06 |
| 1960 | 121 | #974 | 0.06 |
| 1959 | 88 | #1,137 | 0.04 |
| 1958 | 84 | #1,159 | 0.04 |
| 1957 | 62 | #1,347 | 0.03 |
| 1956 | 45 | #1,590 | 0.02 |
| 1955 | 37 | #1,711 | 0.02 |
| 1954 | 36 | #1,717 | 0.02 |
| 1953 | 40 | #1,552 | 0.02 |
| 1952 | 59 | #1,241 | 0.03 |
| 1951 | 55 | #1,260 | 0.03 |
| 1950 | 8 | #4,144 | under 0.01 |
| 1949 | 9 | #3,755 | 0.01 |
| 1948 | 6 | #4,949 | under 0.01 |
| 1947 | 8 | #4,170 | under 0.01 |
| 1946 | 16 | #2,431 | 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Krystal a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Krystal has been given almost only to girls: 190 boys in 80 years of records.
Girls and boys named Krystal: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Krystal, and how old are they?
73,000 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 97% of the 75,376 Americans ever recorded as Krystal. The median Krystal alive today is 39 years old; half are between 33 and 42.
The 2020 Census counted 62,788 people named Krystal (62,719 women and girls, 69 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 72,981 born in the U.S. The Census count is 14% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 1,060 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 7,910 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 50,800 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 11,000 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 2,170 |
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 Krystal born?
The states with the most babies named Krystal are Texas, California and New York, with 34% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 9,835 | #1,982 | 1.6× |
| California | 9,821 | #2,396 | 1.0× |
| New York | 5,126 | #1,748 | 1.0× |
| Florida | 4,116 | #1,292 | 1.2× |
| Illinois | 3,230 | #1,335 | 0.9× |
| Michigan | 3,181 | not ranked | 1.1× |
| Ohio | 2,156 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| North Carolina | 2,001 | not ranked | 1.0× |
| Pennsylvania | 1,970 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Louisiana | 1,762 | not ranked | 1.2× |
Where Krystal is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Krystal is most over-represented in Texas: since 1946 it was given 1.6 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 Krystal 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 441,956 babies since 1880, Krystal is the second most given (17% of them). In 2025 it was given to 88 of their 374 babies (24%), again the second 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 Krystal
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 Krystal and names like it
- Compare Krystal and CrystalBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1980sKrystal peaked in 1985.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Krystal since 1910.
- The top names of 1985The year the most babies were named Krystal.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Krystal alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with KMost given first.