Cristel
#3,922 in 2025Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Cristel has been given to 1,037 babies in the U.S. since 1930. In 2025 it ranked #3,922 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2011, with 95 recorded.
Babies named Cristel, 2025
1 in 89,600
Cristel over time, 1880–2025
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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Cristel?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 89,600
- 37 of 3,315,165 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 43,400
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2025
- #3,922
- of 17,293 girls’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 62,106 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Cristel sits on the popularity scale
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.
Put another way: gather 62,106 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Cristel. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Cristels were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Cristel was born before 2011 — so the typical Cristel is around 14 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2010s
- 33.8% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 68.7%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 1,032
- People you could plausibly meet
2010s — 33.8% of all recorded uses (351).
Is Cristel 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
- −681
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- +744
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- +962
- Places climbed
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 1.32×
- More babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 38.9%
- Peak was 2011 (95)
- Years since peak
- 14
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 47.5% average annual change
Spellings of Cristel
Cristel is not the most common spelling — Crystal is, with 50.9% against Cristel's 0.16%.
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 Cristel is used
Across 1910–2025, Cristel was most concentrated in Texas — about 1 in 100,000 girls, against 1 in 304,545 across all states with data. It was least common in New York (1 in —).
Most concentrated
- 1Texas1 in 100,000
- 2California1 in —
- 3Florida1 in —
- 4Georgia1 in —
- 5Maryland1 in —
- 6New Jersey1 in —
- 7New York1 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. Cristel has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Cristel around the world
Where Cristel 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.
- France1953–1994#3,018in 1994
- Canada1993–2011#3,211in 2011
- South Australia1957–1984#661in 1984
Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Cristel by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Cristel
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Cristel
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.