Chrystelle

Girls' name

A Christian person, a Christian, through Christelle

Chrystelle has been given to 39 babies in the U.S. since 1913. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1998, with 7 recorded.

Babies named Chrystelle, 2006

1 in 791,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Chrystelle: meaning, origin, and history

A Christian person, a Christian, through Christelle

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Chrystelle means

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

Origin, language, and formation

Chrystelle is used in French.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Christelle, Christine and Chrīstiāna.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 39 girls were recorded with the name Chrystelle between 1913 and 2006. Its highest annual count was 7 in 1998; its best national rank was #3,270 in 1913.

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 Chrystelle?

Chrystelle had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2006, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2006: 1 in 791,000; 5 of 3,956,166 births
Among girls only: 1 in 380,000; <0.01% of girls
Rank, 2006: Unranked; Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size: 548,442 kids; Even odds of a second one

Where Chrystelle 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 2006 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 548,442 children born in 2006 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Chrystelle. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Chrystelles were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Chrystelle was born before 1925 — so the typical Chrystelle is around 100 today.

Median birth year: 1925; About 100 years old
Biggest decade: 1910s; 41.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years: 30.8%; Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950: 12; People you could plausibly meet

Choose a decade

1910s — 41.0% of all recorded uses (16).

Is Chrystelle 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: —; Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago: New entry; Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago: —; Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago: —; Not published both years
Share of its own peak: 0%; Peak was 1998 (7)
Years since peak: 27; Years
Year-to-year steadiness: Shifting; 16.7% average annual change
Best rank ever: #3,270; 1913

Spellings of Chrystelle

Chrystelle is not the most common spelling — Christelle is, with 58.2% against Chrystelle's 2.1%.

Christelle58.2%1,096
Christella39.8%749
Chrystelle2.1%39

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.

Chrystelle around the world

Where Chrystelle 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
1999–1999
#3,900
in 1999
France
1951–2008
#6,703
in 2008
Canada
1993–2000
#2,489
in 2000
South Australia
1980–1993
#712
in 1993

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.

Chrystelle by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025: Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago: —
Best rank ever: #3,270; 1913
Peak year: 1998; 7 that year
First recorded: 1913
Last recorded: 2006
All-time count: 39
Count in 2025: Under 5

Names similar to Chrystelle

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

Sibling names for Chrystelle

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

Kalie Reilly Reanna Serina Isela Shae Taya Allyssa

For a brother

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