Meaning not yet researched.
Christal: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 13 in 2025. Its best rank was #525 in 1978.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #525 in 1978; #7,974 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Christal in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#7,974 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1978, at #525.
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Christal: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 13 girls in 2025. Peak: #525 in 1978 · most girls in one year: 352 (1978).
In 2025, 13 US girls were named Christal, making it the 7,974th most common girls’ name of the year, up 3,366 places from #11,340 in 2024. That is 5 more than the 8 girls named Christal in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #525, reached in 1978. That year also had the most girls given the name: 352. For comparison, it was #5,327 in 2015 and #1,961 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Christal in 96 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1913 with 5 babies. In all, 9,710 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 1970s, with 2,846 babies named Christal.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 145 US girls were named Christal; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 25. In 2025 that was about 1 in 123,636 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Chrystal (15,765 babies since 1880) and Christel (3,712 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Christell, Christalle and Christyle are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Rare spellings summarised here: Christell (470), Christalle (17), Christyle (8).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Christal in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 13 | #7,974 | — | — |
| 2024 | 8 | #11,340 | — | — |
| 2023 | 11 | #9,110 | — | — |
| 2022 | 15 | #7,354 | — | — |
| 2021 | 12 | #8,591 | — | — |
| 2020 | 11 | #9,072 | — | — |
| 2019 | 13 | #8,231 | — | — |
| 2018 | 14 | #7,854 | — | — |
| 2017 | 23 | #5,547 | — | — |
| 2016 | 25 | #5,319 | — | — |
| 2015 | 25 | #5,327 | — | — |
| 2014 | 34 | #4,289 | — | — |
| 2013 | 36 | #4,088 | — | — |
| 2012 | 42 | #3,728 | — | — |
| 2011 | 53 | #3,141 | — | — |
| 2010 | 56 | #3,017 | — | — |
| 2009 | 45 | #3,575 | — | — |
| 2008 | 79 | #2,421 | — | — |
| 2007 | 72 | #2,573 | — | — |
| 2006 | 78 | #2,402 | — | — |
| 2005 | 63 | #2,678 | — | — |
| 2004 | 89 | #2,048 | — | — |
| 2003 | 80 | #2,172 | — | — |
| 2002 | 66 | #2,422 | — | — |
| 2001 | 102 | #1,752 | — | — |
| 2000 | 90 | #1,888 | — | — |
| 1999 | 89 | #1,788 | — | — |
| 1998 | 123 | #1,394 | — | — |
| 1997 | 120 | #1,401 | — | — |
| 1996 | 113 | #1,451 | — | — |
| 1995 | 108 | #1,476 | — | — |
| 1994 | 133 | #1,278 | — | — |
| 1993 | 144 | #1,203 | — | — |
| 1992 | 167 | #1,082 | — | — |
| 1991 | 162 | #1,107 | — | — |
| 1990 | 175 | #1,029 | — | — |
| 1989 | 153 | #1,091 | — | — |
| 1988 | 179 | #941 | — | — |
| 1987 | 206 | #844 | — | — |
| 1986 | 211 | #797 | — | — |
| 1985 | 258 | #690 | — | — |
| 1984 | 267 | #653 | — | — |
| 1983 | 313 | #574 | — | — |
| 1982 | 347 | #546 | — | — |
| 1981 | 292 | #622 | — | — |
| 1980 | 293 | #623 | — | — |
| 1979 | 337 | #552 | — | — |
| 1978 | 352 | #525 | — | — |
| 1977 | 346 | #529 | — | — |
| 1976 | 300 | #560 | — | — |
| 1975 | 276 | #588 | — | — |
| 1974 | 264 | #598 | — | — |
| 1973 | 306 | #547 | — | — |
| 1972 | 236 | #645 | — | — |
| 1971 | 233 | #670 | — | — |
| 1970 | 196 | #753 | — | — |
| 1969 | 188 | #739 | — | — |
| 1968 | 114 | #975 | — | — |
| 1967 | 113 | #959 | — | — |
| 1966 | 110 | #974 | — | — |
| 1965 | 101 | #1,043 | — | — |
| 1964 | 122 | #950 | — | — |
| 1963 | 84 | #1,188 | — | — |
| 1962 | 85 | #1,193 | — | — |
| 1961 | 82 | #1,218 | — | — |
| 1960 | 75 | #1,268 | — | — |
| 1959 | 78 | #1,208 | — | — |
| 1958 | 69 | #1,275 | — | — |
| 1957 | 73 | #1,230 | — | — |
| 1956 | 53 | #1,455 | — | — |
| 1955 | 86 | #1,088 | — | — |
| 1954 | 83 | #1,079 | — | — |
| 1953 | 66 | #1,190 | — | — |
| 1952 | 60 | #1,227 | — | — |
| 1951 | 52 | #1,294 | — | — |
| 1950 | 24 | #1,961 | — | — |
| 1949 | 9 | #3,668 | — | — |
| 1948 | 9 | #3,636 | — | — |
| 1947 | 12 | #3,083 | — | — |
| 1946 | 11 | #3,058 | — | — |
| 1945 | 6 | #4,105 | — | — |
| 1943 | 5 | #4,795 | — | — |
| 1932 | 8 | #3,322 | — | — |
| 1930 | 6 | #4,119 | — | — |
| 1929 | 6 | #4,150 | — | — |
| 1926 | 7 | #3,947 | — | — |
| 1925 | 7 | #4,095 | — | — |
| 1922 | 7 | #4,080 | — | — |
| 1921 | 5 | #5,246 | — | — |
| 1920 | 6 | #4,482 | — | — |
| 1919 | 5 | #4,950 | — | — |
| 1918 | 7 | #3,940 | — | — |
| 1917 | 6 | #4,187 | — | — |
| 1915 | 5 | #4,400 | — | — |
| 1914 | 6 | #3,257 | — | — |
| 1913 | 5 | #3,269 | — | — |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).