Christelle

#8,471 in 2025Girls' name

A Christian person, a Christian, through Christine

Christelle has been given to 1,096 babies in the U.S. since 1915. In 2025 it ranked #8,471 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2010, with 31 recorded.

Babies named Christelle, 2025

1 in 276,000

Christelle over time, 1880–2025

Girls

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Christelle: meaning, origin, and history

A Christian person, a Christian, through Christine

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Christelle means

Christelle belongs to the name family reached through Christelle → Christine → Chrīstiāna. Its meaning is “a Christian person, a Christian”.

Origin, language, and formation

Christelle is used in French.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Christine and Chrīstiāna.

Pronunciation and spelling

In French, Christelle is pronounced /kʁis.tɛl/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 1,096 girls were recorded with the name Christelle between 1915 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 31 in 2010; its best national rank was #3,144 in 1920.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #6,690 in 2020 to #8,471 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #4,617 in 2015 to #8,471 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.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Christelle?

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

Among all babies, 2025: 1 in 276,000; 12 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only: 1 in 134,000; <0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025: #8,471; of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size: 191,493 kids; Even odds of a second one

Where Christelle 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 191,493 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Christelle. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Christelles were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Christelle was born before 2001 — so the typical Christelle is around 24 today.

Median birth year: 2001; About 24 years old
Biggest decade: 2010s; 22.2% of all use
Born in the last 25 years: 50.7%; A modern name
Recorded since 1950: 1,035; People you could plausibly meet

Choose a decade

2010s — 22.2% of all recorded uses (243).

Is Christelle 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: −418; Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago: −1,781; Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago: −3,854; Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago: 0.40×; Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak: 38.7%; Peak was 2010 (31)
Years since peak: 15; Years
Year-to-year steadiness: Shifting; 21.2% average annual change
Best rank ever: #3,144; 1920

Spellings of Christelle

Christelle is not the most common spelling — Christene is, with 44.7% against Christelle's 10.0%.

Christene44.7%4,916
Christel33.7%3,712
Christelle10.0%1,096
Christella6.8%749
Christle4.8%526

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 Christelle is used

Across 1910–2025, Christelle was most concentrated in Florida — about 1 in 33,333 girls, against 1 in 185,960 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

03 per 100,000

State popularity map

Most concentrated

1Florida1 in 33,333
2New York1 in 100,000
3California1 in —
4Louisiana1 in —
5Texas1 in —

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. Christelle has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Christelle around the world

Where Christelle 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
1996–2024
#5,892
in 2024
France
1933–2025
#2,900
in 2025
Canada
1991–2022
#1,982
in 2022
South Australia
1956–2010
#801
in 2010

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.

Christelle by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025: #8,471
Trend vs 5 yrs ago: Down 1,781
Best rank ever: #3,144; 1920
Peak year: 2010; 31 that year
First recorded: 1915
Last recorded: 2025
All-time count: 1,096
Count in 2025: 12

Names similar to Christelle

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

Sibling names for Christelle

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

For a sister

Abagail Rhianna Hayleigh Jaiden Shaniya Jazmyne Taniya Adelle

For a brother

Aaden Kale Brennen Jerimiah Gavyn Jorden Keven Jamarcus

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