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Krystle

Girls' name

Crystal, ultimately from a Greek word for ice

Krystle has been given to 12,982 babies in the U.S. since 1969. 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 2,579 recorded.

Babies named Krystle, 2016

1 in 734,000

Krystle over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Krystle: meaning, origin, and history

Crystal, ultimately from a Greek word for ice

English

About Krystle

Krystle is an English spelling of Crystal, a word name ultimately connected with Greek krystallos, “ice.” This particular form is strongly associated with Krystle Carrington, played by Linda Evans in Dynasty. Its American popularity reached a striking high point during the programme's 1980s run.

Meaning and related spellings

The English word crystal came through earlier European forms from a Greek word used for ice and rock crystal. As a name, Crystal evokes the clear material and its bright, transparent appearance.

Krystle preserves the same pronunciation while changing both the opening letter and the arrangement of the ending. Krystal, Chrystal, and Kristal are other related spellings. Krystelle is a longer-looking form in the same group.

Krystle is pronounced KRIS-tul, with stress on the first syllable. It has two syllables despite the final e. Kris could serve as an informal shortening, though the complete name is already brief.

Krystle Carrington

Dynasty, which ran from 1981 to 1989, followed the wealthy Carrington family and its tangled personal and business relationships. Krystle was the wife of Denver oil tycoon Blake Carrington, played by John Forsythe.

Linda Evans's character occupied a central place in the drama, alongside Blake's former wife Alexis, played by Joan Collins. Their competing relationships with the family helped define the series' world of wealth, rivalry, and elaborate confrontations.

Evans received an Emmy nomination for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series in 1983 for Dynasty. Her performance made the exact spelling Krystle visible in television listings, interviews, and publicity throughout the decade.

Evans had previously played Audra Barkley in The Big Valley from 1965 to 1969. Dynasty gave her a new leading role more than a decade later. The unusual spelling Krystle became attached to that second major period of her television career.

Another television bearer

Indian actor Krystle D'Souza is another public bearer of the spelling. She played Jeevika in the television series Ek Hazaaron Mein Meri Behna Hai, a role through which many viewers came to know her.

Her 2013 interviews discussed the series and her work in it. Here Krystle is the performer's given name, while Jeevika is the fictional character she portrays.

The two television associations belong to different countries and generations: one is a fictional American character of the 1980s, and the other a contemporary actor in Indian television.

American popularity

Krystle's largest annual girls' total in the United States SSA series was 2,579 in 1985, when it ranked #111. That high point fell squarely within Dynasty's original run.

The latest published girls' entry in the local series is five births in 2016. Crystal and Krystal are counted separately, so Krystle's record captures the rise and later rarity of this particular spelling.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Wiktionary and Wikipedia material is adapted with attribution under CC BY-SA 4.0 where applicable. American popularity figures use the local Social Security Administration series for this exact spelling; name-sex-year totals below five are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How popular is Krystle?

In 2025, Krystle was not listed in the latest American name records. The U.S. birth records first list this spelling for girls in 1969; its largest annual count was 2,579 in 1985. Rankings count each spelling separately. They describe national use, so local familiarity can differ. The popularity chart shows whether the name has remained common, returned after a quieter period, or risen recently.

How common is Krystle?

Krystle had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2016, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2016
1 in 734,000
5 of 3,669,531 births
Among girls only
1 in 354,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2016
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
508,706 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Krystle 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 2016 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 508,706 children born in 2016 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Krystle. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Krystles were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Krystle was born before 1986 — so the typical Krystle is around 39 today.

Median birth year
1986
About 39 years old
Biggest decade
1980s
84.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
8.4%
Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950
12,938
People you could plausibly meet
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1980s — 84.0% of all recorded uses (10,869).

Is Krystle 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
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1985 (2,579)
Years since peak
40
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
20.6% average annual change
Best rank ever
#111
1985

Spellings of Krystle

Krystle is not the most common spelling — Krystal is, with 51.1% against Krystle's 8.8%.

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 Krystle is used

Across 1910–2025, Krystle was most concentrated in Hawaii — about 1 in 5,556 girls, against 1 in 13,141 across all states with data. It was least common in North Dakota (1 in 100,000).

118 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Hawaii1 in 5,556
  2. 2New Mexico1 in 7,692
  3. 3New Hampshire1 in 8,333
  4. 4California1 in 9,091
  5. 5Florida1 in 9,091
  6. 6Maryland1 in 9,091
  7. 7Arizona1 in 10,000
  8. 8Louisiana1 in 10,000

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

Krystle around the world

Where Krystle 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
    1999–2019
    #5,591
    in 2019
  • Scotland
    1983–1989
    #576
    in 1989
  • Ireland
    1982–1986
    #521
    in 1986
  • France
    1985–1985
    #2,572
    in 1985
  • Canada
    1991–1996
    #2,558
    in 1996
  • South Australia
    1983–1996
    #712
    in 1996

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Central Statistics Office, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS 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 Krystle

People whose public names include Krystle, 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.

Krystle in other languages

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

CrystalKrystal

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

Krystle 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
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Best rank ever
#111
1985
Peak year
1985
2,579 that year
First recorded
1969
Last recorded
2016
All-time count
12,938
Count in 2025
Under 5

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#4,313
1986
Peak year
1986
10 that year
First recorded
1982
Last recorded
1989
All-time count
44
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Krystle

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

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Names with a curve like Krystle

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

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Sibling names for Krystle

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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