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Christal

#7,972 in 2025Girls' name

Variant of Crystal

Christal has been given to 9,710 babies in the U.S. since 1913. In 2025 it ranked #7,972 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1978, with 352 recorded.

Babies named Christal, 2025

1 in 255,000

Christal over time, 1880–2025

Girls
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Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Christal: meaning, origin, and history

Variant of Crystal

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Christal means

Christal is a variant of Crystal.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Crystal.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 9,710 girls were recorded with the name Christal between 1913 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 352 in 1978; its best national rank was #525 in 1978.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #9,067 in 2020 to #7,972 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #5,325 in 2015 to #7,972 in 2025.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

How common is Christal?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 255,000
13 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 124,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#7,972
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
176,762 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Christal sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 176,762 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Christal. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Christals were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Christal was born before 1980 — so the typical Christal is around 45 today.

Median birth year
1980
About 45 years old
Biggest decade
1970s
29.3% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
11.0%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
9,572
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1970s — 29.3% of all recorded uses (2,846).

Is Christal rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
+3,363
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+1,095
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
−2,647
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.52×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
3.7%
Peak was 1978 (352)
Years since peak
47
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
20.1% average annual change
Best rank ever
#525
1978

Spellings of Christal

Christal is not the most common spelling — Crystal is, with 51.7% against Christal's 1.5%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Christal is used

Across 1910–2025, Christal was most concentrated in Florida — about 1 in 14,286 girls, against 1 in 23,072 across all states with data. It was least common in Utah (1 in —).

07 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Florida1 in 14,286
  2. 2Louisiana1 in 14,286
  3. 3Texas1 in 14,286
  4. 4Arkansas1 in 16,667
  5. 5California1 in 16,667
  6. 6Kentucky1 in 16,667
  7. 7North Carolina1 in 16,667
  8. 8Michigan1 in 20,000

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Christal has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Christal around the world

Where Christal ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    1996–2018
    #5,666
    in 2018
  • France
    1990–2023
    #5,318
    in 2023
  • Canada
    1991–2019
    #3,370
    in 2019
  • South Australia
    1973–1997
    #681
    in 1997

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Notable people named Christal

People whose public names include Christal, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Christal in other languages

Cross-language forms and variants of Christal. Linked forms have their own page here.

ChristaCristalChrystal

Variant forms from Wikidata (CC0). Most are used mainly outside the United States; U.S. birth records statistics cover US usage only.

Christal by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#7,972
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 1,095
Best rank ever
#525
1978
Peak year
1978
352 that year
First recorded
1913
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
9,710
Count in 2025
13

Names similar to Christal

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

ChrystalChristenChristinChristianChrissyChristieChristianaChristaChantalChristynChristelKristalCristalChrislynChristeneChristiChristyChristanChristenaChristeenChristiannaChrissieChristopherChristelle

Names with a curve like Christal

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Christal, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

HolliCatrinaJanelDemetriaDanelleNikiAndriaCristyTeraStephenieCoryStacia

Sibling names for Christal

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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