In 2025, 37 US girls were named Cristal, making it the 3,922nd most common girls’ name of the year, down 1,335 places from #2,587 in 2024. That is 31 fewer than the 68 girls named Cristal in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #377, reached in 1991. That year also had the most girls given the name: 679. For comparison, it was #1,986 in 2015 and #4,838 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Cristal in 76 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1947 with 5 babies. In all, 15,936 US babies have been given the name, 99.6% of them girls and 0.3% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1990s, with 5,238 babies named Cristal.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 627 US girls were named Cristal; the busiest of those years was 2017, with 91. In 2025 that was about 1 in 43,440 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Crystal (333,298 babies since 1880), Kristal (12,079 babies since 1880), Crista (4,246 babies since 1880) and Krystal (75,376 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Cristalle, Cristell and Cristhel are summarised on this page.