Kristle
Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Kristle has been given to 892 babies in the U.S. since 1964. 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 1985, with 97 recorded.
Babies named Kristle, 1998
1 in 409,000
Kristle 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Kristle?
Kristle had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1998, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 1998
- 1 in 409,000
- 9 of 3,677,189 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 196,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 1998
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 283,205 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Kristle sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 1998 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 283,205 children born in 1998 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Kristle. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Kristles were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Kristle was born before 1984 — so the typical Kristle is around 41 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1980s
- 64.9% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 91.7%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 892
- People you could plausibly meet
1980s — 64.9% of all recorded uses (579).
Is Kristle 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
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- 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 1985 (97)
- Years since peak
- 40
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 33.6% average annual change
Spellings of Kristle
Kristle is not the most common spelling — Kristen is, with 27.6% against Kristle's 0.11%.
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 Kristle is used
Across 1910–2025, Kristle was most concentrated in California — about 1 in 100,000 girls, against 1 in 307,677 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).
Most concentrated
- 1California1 in 100,000
- 2Georgia1 in —
- 3Illinois1 in —
- 4Louisiana1 in —
- 5Maryland1 in —
- 6Michigan1 in —
- 7Mississippi1 in —
- 8North Carolina1 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. Kristle has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Kristle around the world
Where Kristle 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.
- South Australia1984–1986#479in 1986
Popularity data from Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Kristle by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Kristle
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Kristle
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.