Krystel
Krystel was last recorded in 2024, when 10 babies were given it; 1,125 Americans have been recorded with it between 1971 and 2024 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,100 Americans named Krystel and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 36 years old and half are between 18 and 41.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Krystel by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Krystel?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #9,933, in 2024; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
88 babies in 1986, the peak
Krystel peaked in 1986, when 88 girls were given it, #1,454 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 10 | #9,933 | 6.2 |
| 2023 | 11 | #9,322 | 6.9 |
| 2022 | 9 | #10,835 | 5.5 |
| 2021 | 7 | #12,896 | 4.3 |
| 2020 | 14 | #7,770 | 8.7 |
| 2018 | 6 | #14,821 | 3.5 |
| 2017 | 18 | #6,688 | 10.4 |
| 2016 | 28 | #4,923 | 15.8 |
| 2015 | 16 | #7,449 | 9.0 |
| 2014 | 16 | #7,495 | 9.0 |
Every recorded year (51)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2013 | 16 | #7,585 | 9.1 |
| 2012 | 37 | #4,084 | 21.0 |
| 2011 | 54 | #3,113 | 30.7 |
| 2010 | 25 | #5,518 | 14.1 |
| 2009 | 7 | #14,527 | 3.8 |
| 2008 | 10 | #11,239 | 5.3 |
| 2007 | 15 | #8,320 | 7.8 |
| 2006 | 14 | #8,506 | 7.4 |
| 2005 | 16 | #7,332 | 8.7 |
| 2004 | 7 | #13,517 | 3.8 |
| 2003 | 14 | #7,806 | 7.7 |
| 2002 | 12 | #8,567 | 6.7 |
| 2001 | 9 | #10,588 | 5.0 |
| 2000 | 17 | #6,348 | 9.4 |
| 1999 | 9 | #9,937 | 5.1 |
| 1998 | 11 | #8,298 | 6.2 |
| 1997 | 12 | #7,520 | 6.9 |
| 1996 | 17 | #5,661 | 9.7 |
| 1995 | 18 | #5,324 | 10.2 |
| 1994 | 24 | #4,309 | 13.4 |
| 1993 | 20 | #4,913 | 11.1 |
| 1992 | 23 | #4,454 | 12.5 |
| 1991 | 29 | #3,670 | 15.5 |
| 1990 | 32 | #3,397 | 16.9 |
| 1989 | 39 | #2,833 | 21.2 |
| 1988 | 34 | #3,004 | 19.1 |
| 1987 | 43 | #2,409 | 24.7 |
| 1986 | 88 | #1,454 | 51.3 |
| 1985 | 84 | #1,477 | 48.8 |
| 1984 | 44 | #2,245 | 26.1 |
| 1983 | 60 | #1,782 | 35.9 |
| 1982 | 38 | #2,513 | 22.4 |
| 1981 | 29 | #3,030 | 17.4 |
| 1980 | 17 | #4,420 | 10.2 |
| 1979 | 15 | #4,735 | 9.3 |
| 1978 | 11 | #5,755 | 7.2 |
| 1977 | 12 | #5,363 | 7.8 |
| 1976 | 9 | #6,309 | 6.1 |
| 1974 | 5 | #9,439 | 3.4 |
| 1973 | 9 | #5,783 | 6.2 |
| 1971 | 5 | #8,940 | 3.0 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Krystel a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Krystel has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 51 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Krystel: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Krystel, and how old are they?
1,100 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 1,125 Americans ever recorded as Krystel. The median Krystel alive today is 36 years old; half are between 18 and 41.
The 2020 Census counted 1,103 people named Krystel (1,102 women and girls, 1 man or boy). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,058 born in the U.S. The Census count is 4% above that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 79 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 603 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 266 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 150 |
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 Krystel born?
The states with the most babies named Krystel are California, Texas and New York, with 84% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 118 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Texas | 79 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| New York | 28 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Florida | 24 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Illinois | 5 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Michigan | 5 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Ohio | 5 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Washington | 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 Krystel 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 427,001 babies since 1880, Krystel is the fifth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 none of their 374 babies recorded by SSA was a Krystel (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
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 Krystel
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 Krystel and names like it
- Compare Krystel and CrystalBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1980sKrystel peaked in 1986.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Krystel since 1910.
- The top names of 1986The year the most babies were named Krystel.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Krystel alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with KMost given first.