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Crystal: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 202 in 2025. Its best rank was #9 in 1982.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #9 in 1982; #1,145 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Crystal in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,145 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1982, at #9.
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Crystal: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 202 girls in 2025. Peak: #9 in 1982 · most girls in one year: 19,099 (1982).
In 2025, 202 US girls were named Crystal, making it the 1,145th most common girls’ name of the year, up 27 places from #1,172 in 2024. That is 3 fewer than the 205 girls named Crystal in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #9, reached in 1982. That year also had the most girls given the name: 19,099. For comparison, it was #556 in 2015 and #452 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Crystal in 141 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1884 with 11 babies. In all, 333,298 US babies have been given the name, 99.6% of them girls and 0.4% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1980s, with 141,629 babies named Crystal.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 3,205 US girls were named Crystal; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 544. In 2025 that was about 1 in 7,957 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Crystal ranked highest in Texas in 2025, at #667 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Krystal (75,376 babies since 1880), Cristal (15,936 babies since 1880), Chrystal (15,765 babies since 1880) and Krystle (12,982 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Krystel, Cristel and Crystel are summarised on this page. The open nickname list we use links it to Chris, Crys, Stal and Tal.
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Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in English. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
Rare spellings summarised here: Krystel (1,125), Cristel (1,037), Crystel (743), Chrysta (574), Crystall (407), Crystol (208), Crystale (203), Krystale (170), Krystall (170), Krystol (113), Krystyl (88), Cristol (62), and more.
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.
US girls. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five girls got the name, so 38 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 46 | #667 | #425 |
| Colorado | 6 | #818 | #630 |
| Minnesota | 5 | #869 | #691 |
| Massachusetts | 5 | #910 | #695 |
| New York | 17 | #915 | #512 |
| California | 27 | #1,005 | #346 |
| New Jersey | 6 | #1,065 | #436 |
| Florida | 14 | #1,069 | #631 |
| Virginia | 6 | #1,073 | #596 |
| Pennsylvania | 7 | #1,138 | #800 |
| Illinois | 6 | #1,281 | #426 |
| North Carolina | 5 | #1,508 | #441 |
| Ohio | 5 | #1,508 | #1,086 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 202 | #1,145 | — | — |
| 2024 | 205 | #1,172 | — | — |
| 2023 | 202 | #1,189 | — | — |
| 2022 | 250 | #1,026 | — | — |
| 2021 | 271 | #959 | — | — |
| 2020 | 316 | #857 | — | — |
| 2019 | 358 | #775 | — | — |
| 2018 | 399 | #716 | — | — |
| 2017 | 458 | #644 | — | — |
| 2016 | 544 | #572 | — | — |
| 2015 | 560 | #556 | — | — |
| 2014 | 663 | #477 | — | — |
| 2013 | 663 | #465 | — | — |
| 2012 | 818 | #385 | — | — |
| 2011 | 934 | #340 | — | — |
| 2010 | 1,006 | #317 | 6 | #11,025 |
| 2009 | 1,160 | #283 | 7 | #10,076 |
| 2008 | 1,367 | #252 | — | — |
| 2007 | 1,598 | #215 | 5 | #12,730 |
| 2006 | 1,744 | #201 | 7 | #9,769 |
| 2005 | 1,856 | #187 | 5 | #11,787 |
| 2004 | 2,034 | #163 | 16 | #5,052 |
| 2003 | 2,019 | #166 | 5 | #11,220 |
| 2002 | 2,144 | #154 | 6 | #9,605 |
| 2001 | 2,432 | #137 | — | — |
| 2000 | 2,551 | #132 | — | — |
| 1999 | 2,741 | #119 | 5 | #10,208 |
| 1998 | 3,174 | #110 | 11 | #5,546 |
| 1997 | 3,435 | #99 | 6 | #8,333 |
| 1996 | 3,786 | #92 | 12 | #4,928 |
| 1995 | 4,391 | #80 | 14 | #4,320 |
| 1994 | 5,199 | #64 | 16 | #3,945 |
| 1993 | 5,829 | #57 | 17 | #3,688 |
| 1992 | 6,598 | #50 | 19 | #3,359 |
| 1991 | 7,727 | #41 | 20 | #3,129 |
| 1990 | 8,218 | #39 | 33 | #2,182 |
| 1989 | 9,103 | #32 | 74 | #1,259 |
| 1988 | 10,101 | #28 | 33 | #1,958 |
| 1987 | 11,011 | #26 | 47 | #1,509 |
| 1986 | 12,689 | #25 | 75 | #1,077 |
| 1985 | 14,399 | #21 | 63 | #1,184 |
| 1984 | 16,560 | #12 | 64 | #1,136 |
| 1983 | 17,904 | #11 | 83 | #967 |
| 1982 | 19,099 | #9 | 72 | #1,074 |
| 1981 | 15,888 | #16 | 56 | #1,227 |
| 1980 | 14,253 | #18 | 55 | #1,241 |
| 1979 | 13,467 | #18 | 48 | #1,340 |
| 1978 | 12,594 | #18 | 52 | #1,242 |
| 1977 | 9,724 | #25 | 25 | #1,958 |
| 1976 | 6,946 | #36 | 23 | #2,062 |
| 1975 | 6,243 | #43 | 26 | #1,843 |
| 1974 | 5,622 | #49 | 19 | #2,209 |
| 1973 | 5,768 | #48 | 16 | #2,422 |
| 1972 | 5,044 | #59 | 12 | #2,848 |
| 1971 | 4,530 | #79 | 16 | #2,385 |
| 1970 | 3,819 | #101 | 10 | #3,110 |
| 1969 | 2,987 | #118 | 7 | #3,663 |
| 1968 | 2,753 | #118 | 11 | #2,600 |
| 1967 | 2,522 | #139 | — | — |
| 1966 | 2,423 | #145 | 5 | #4,059 |
| 1965 | 2,543 | #146 | 9 | #2,828 |
| 1964 | 2,945 | #136 | 8 | #3,092 |
| 1963 | 2,581 | #156 | 12 | #2,442 |
| 1962 | 2,100 | #180 | 11 | #2,542 |
| 1961 | 2,117 | #182 | 10 | #2,744 |
| 1960 | 2,002 | #189 | 11 | #2,569 |
| 1959 | 1,552 | #212 | — | — |
| 1958 | 1,307 | #234 | — | — |
| 1957 | 1,410 | #224 | — | — |
| 1956 | 931 | #289 | — | — |
| 1955 | 888 | #290 | — | — |
| 1954 | 758 | #307 | 5 | #3,935 |
| 1953 | 676 | #315 | — | — |
| 1952 | 623 | #328 | — | — |
| 1951 | 550 | #338 | — | — |
| 1950 | 319 | #452 | — | — |
| 1949 | 270 | #490 | — | — |
| 1948 | 275 | #485 | — | — |
| 1947 | 325 | #453 | — | — |
| 1946 | 235 | #514 | — | — |
| 1945 | 117 | #690 | — | — |
| 1944 | 136 | #627 | — | — |
| 1943 | 158 | #599 | — | — |
| 1942 | 175 | #561 | — | — |
| 1941 | 128 | #626 | 5 | #3,608 |
| 1940 | 102 | #686 | — | — |
| 1939 | 80 | #765 | — | — |
| 1938 | 83 | #765 | — | — |
| 1937 | 80 | #762 | — | — |
| 1936 | 81 | #740 | — | — |
| 1935 | 88 | #717 | — | — |
| 1934 | 98 | #676 | — | — |
| 1933 | 68 | #809 | — | — |
| 1932 | 75 | #782 | — | — |
| 1931 | 82 | #743 | — | — |
| 1930 | 81 | #781 | — | — |
| 1929 | 99 | #704 | — | — |
| 1928 | 91 | #743 | — | — |
| 1927 | 91 | #758 | — | — |
| 1926 | 97 | #735 | — | — |
| 1925 | 122 | #668 | — | — |
| 1924 | 100 | #736 | — | — |
| 1923 | 109 | #701 | — | — |
| 1922 | 117 | #674 | — | — |
| 1921 | 137 | #630 | — | — |
| 1920 | 123 | #652 | — | — |
| 1919 | 113 | #656 | — | — |
| 1918 | 142 | #597 | 11 | #2,580 |
| 1917 | 171 | #506 | — | — |
| 1916 | 143 | #562 | — | — |
| 1915 | 138 | #541 | — | — |
| 1914 | 85 | #626 | — | — |
| 1913 | 79 | #573 | — | — |
| 1912 | 88 | #516 | — | — |
| 1911 | 48 | #617 | — | — |
| 1910 | 60 | #529 | — | — |
| 1909 | 40 | #615 | — | — |
| 1908 | 50 | #513 | — | — |
| 1907 | 35 | #631 | — | — |
| 1906 | 37 | #578 | — | — |
| 1905 | 63 | #426 | — | — |
| 1904 | 53 | #445 | — | — |
| 1903 | 32 | #579 | — | — |
| 1902 | 28 | #625 | — | — |
| 1901 | 29 | #578 | — | — |
| 1900 | 27 | #692 | — | — |
| 1899 | 34 | #509 | — | — |
| 1898 | 26 | #636 | — | — |
| 1897 | 18 | #742 | — | — |
| 1896 | 20 | #709 | — | — |
| 1895 | 17 | #777 | — | — |
| 1894 | 16 | #755 | — | — |
| 1893 | 17 | #722 | — | — |
| 1892 | 11 | #913 | — | — |
| 1891 | 17 | #645 | — | — |
| 1890 | 9 | #952 | — | — |
| 1889 | 7 | #1,043 | — | — |
| 1888 | 10 | #849 | — | — |
| 1886 | 8 | #848 | — | — |
| 1885 | 6 | #945 | — | — |
| 1884 | 11 | #645 | — | — |
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).