Krystle
Krystle was last recorded in 2016, when 5 babies were given it; 12,982 Americans have been recorded with it between 1969 and 2016 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 12,600 Americans named Krystle and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (97% of everyone recorded); the median is 40 years old and half are between 38 and 42.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Krystle by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Krystle mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Krystle is “a female given name, variant of Crystal.”
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Krystle?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #17,666, in 2016; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
2,588 babies in 1985, the peak
Krystle peaked in 1985, when 2,588 babies were given it (2,579 girls, #111 among girls’ names). It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2016 | 5 | #17,666 | under 0.01 |
| 2015 | 6 | #15,534 | under 0.01 |
| 2012 | 8 | #12,857 | under 0.01 |
| 2010 | 5 | #18,560 | under 0.01 |
| 2009 | 7 | #14,528 | under 0.01 |
| 2008 | 12 | #9,808 | 0.01 |
| 2007 | 12 | #9,877 | 0.01 |
| 2006 | 17 | #7,341 | 0.01 |
| 2005 | 14 | #8,126 | 0.01 |
| 2004 | 14 | #8,044 | 0.01 |
Every recorded year (43)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2003 | 21 | #5,699 | 0.01 |
| 2002 | 20 | #5,782 | 0.01 |
| 2001 | 19 | #5,954 | 0.01 |
| 2000 | 41 | #3,304 | 0.02 |
| 1999 | 45 | #2,963 | 0.03 |
| 1998 | 43 | #2,990 | 0.02 |
| 1997 | 44 | #2,799 | 0.03 |
| 1996 | 72 | #1,968 | 0.04 |
| 1995 | 82 | #1,766 | 0.05 |
| 1994 | 147 | #1,197 | 0.08 |
| 1993 | 196 | #966 | 0.11 |
| 1992 | 261 | #783 | 0.14 |
| 1991 | 372 | #607 | 0.20 |
| 1990 | 529 | #462 | 0.28 |
| 1989 | 801 | #318 | 0.43 |
| 1988 | 962 | #264 | 0.54 |
| 1987 | 1,207 | #220 | 0.69 |
| 1986 | 1,752 | #161 | 1.0 |
| 1985 | 2,579 | #111 | 1.5 |
| 1984 | 1,112 | #229 | 0.66 |
| 1983 | 1,066 | #232 | 0.64 |
| 1982 | 916 | #269 | 0.54 |
| 1981 | 448 | #474 | 0.27 |
| 1980 | 26 | #3,266 | 0.02 |
| 1979 | 13 | #5,250 | 0.01 |
| 1978 | 14 | #4,807 | 0.01 |
| 1977 | 11 | #5,687 | 0.01 |
| 1976 | 8 | #6,931 | 0.01 |
| 1974 | 6 | #8,186 | under 0.01 |
| 1973 | 6 | #7,904 | under 0.01 |
| 1972 | 9 | #5,694 | 0.01 |
| 1971 | 5 | #8,941 | under 0.01 |
| 1969 | 5 | #8,033 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Krystle a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Krystle has been given almost only to girls: 44 boys in 43 years of records.
Girls and boys named Krystle: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Krystle, and how old are they?
12,600 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 97% of the 12,982 Americans ever recorded as Krystle. The median Krystle alive today is 40 years old; half are between 38 and 42.
The 2020 Census counted 11,089 people named Krystle (11,075 women and girls, 14 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 12,682 born in the U.S. The Census count is 13% 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 97 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 12,200 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 318 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 11 |
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 Krystle born?
The states with the most babies named Krystle are California, Texas and New York, with 34% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 1,720 | not ranked | 1.0× |
| Texas | 1,232 | not ranked | 1.1× |
| New York | 1,159 | not ranked | 1.3× |
| Illinois | 674 | not ranked | 1.1× |
| Florida | 596 | not ranked | 1.1× |
| Michigan | 477 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| Pennsylvania | 464 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| New Jersey | 396 | not ranked | 1.1× |
| Massachusetts | 349 | not ranked | 1.1× |
| Ohio | 337 | not ranked | 0.6× |
Where Krystle is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Krystle is most over-represented in New York: since 1969 it was given 1.3 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 Krystle 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 15,758 babies since 1880, Krystle is the most given (82% 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 Krystle
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 Krystle and names like it
- Compare Krystle and CrystleBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1980sKrystle peaked in 1985.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Krystle since 1910.
- The top names of 1985The year the most babies were named Krystle.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Krystle alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with KMost given first.