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Kristal

#7,696 in 2025Girls' name

Variant of Crystal

Kristal has been given to 12,079 babies in the U.S. since 1951. In 2025 it ranked #7,696 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1982, with 582 recorded.

Babies named Kristal, 2025

1 in 237,000

Kristal over time, 1880–2025

Girls
020040060018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Kristal: meaning, origin, and history

Variant of Crystal

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Kristal means

Kristal is a variant of Crystal.

Origin, language, and formation

Kristal is used in Albanian.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Crystal.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 12,079 girls were recorded with the name Kristal between 1951 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 582 in 1982; its best national rank was #399 in 1982.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #5,575 in 2020 to #7,696 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #5,047 in 2015 to #7,696 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 Kristal?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 237,000
14 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 115,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#7,696
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
164,137 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Kristal 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 164,137 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Kristal. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Kristals were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Kristal was born before 1984 — so the typical Kristal is around 41 today.

Median birth year
1984
About 41 years old
Biggest decade
1980s
35.9% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
13.2%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
12,079
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1980s — 35.9% of all recorded uses (4,338).

Is Kristal 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
+1,572
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
−2,121
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−2,649
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.52×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
2.4%
Peak was 1982 (582)
Years since peak
43
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
17.8% average annual change
Best rank ever
#399
1982

Spellings of Kristal

Kristal is not the most common spelling — Crystal is, with 28.2% against Kristal's 1.0%.

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 Kristal is used

Across 1910–2025, Kristal was most concentrated in Texas — about 1 in 8,333 girls, against 1 in 17,150 across all states with data. It was least common in West Virginia (1 in 100,000).

112 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Texas1 in 8,333
  2. 2Arizona1 in 9,091
  3. 3California1 in 10,000
  4. 4Florida1 in 10,000
  5. 5Louisiana1 in 12,500
  6. 6Michigan1 in 14,286
  7. 7Oklahoma1 in 14,286
  8. 8Washington1 in 14,286

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

Kristal around the world

Where Kristal 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
    1996–2020
    #4,535
    in 2020
  • Ireland
    1983–1983
    #529
    in 1983
  • France
    1993–2019
    #7,616
    in 2019
  • Canada
    1991–2007
    #2,417
    in 2007
  • South Australia
    1966–2012
    #871
    in 2012

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Central Statistics Office, 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. CSO, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Notable people named Kristal

People whose public names include Kristal, 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.

Kristal in other languages

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

KristaCristalKristelKrystal

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

Kristal by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#7,696
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 2,121
Best rank ever
#399
1982
Peak year
1982
582 that year
First recorded
1951
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
12,079
Count in 2025
14

Names similar to Kristal

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

KristynKristieKristianKristelCristalChantalKrishnaKristanKrislynChristalChrystalKrishaKrisKrissyKristyKristaKristiKristineKristinKristenKristianaKrystalKristinaShantal

Names with a curve like Kristal

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

JaymeElishaCoreyTiffanieChristopherChristenLatriceAndriaAleciaRachealTabathaAdrianne

Sibling names for Kristal

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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