Meaning not yet researched.
Kristal: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 14 in 2025. Its best rank was #399 in 1982.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #399 in 1982; #7,698 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Kristal in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#7,698 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1982, at #399.
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Kristal: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 14 girls in 2025. Peak: #399 in 1982 · most girls in one year: 582 (1982).
In 2025, 14 US girls were named Kristal, making it the 7,698th most common girls’ name of the year, up 1,575 places from #9,273 in 2024. That is 3 more than the 11 girls named Kristal in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #399, reached in 1982. That year also had the most girls given the name: 582. For comparison, it was #5,049 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Kristal in 75 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1951 with 7 babies. In all, 12,079 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 1980s, with 4,338 babies named Kristal.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 218 US girls were named Kristal; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 39. In 2025 that was about 1 in 114,805 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Krystal (75,376 babies since 1880), Krista (73,863 babies since 1880), Cristal (15,936 babies since 1880) and Kristel (2,992 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Kristell, Kristyle and Kristhel 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: Kristell (305), Kristyle (15), Kristhel (12), Kristalle (5).
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 Kristal 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 | 14 | #7,698 | — | — |
| 2024 | 11 | #9,273 | — | — |
| 2023 | 13 | #8,296 | — | — |
| 2022 | 18 | #6,591 | — | — |
| 2021 | 19 | #6,296 | — | — |
| 2020 | 22 | #5,579 | — | — |
| 2019 | 25 | #5,237 | — | — |
| 2018 | 25 | #5,246 | — | — |
| 2017 | 32 | #4,440 | — | — |
| 2016 | 39 | #3,893 | — | — |
| 2015 | 27 | #5,049 | — | — |
| 2014 | 40 | #3,816 | — | — |
| 2013 | 54 | #3,063 | — | — |
| 2012 | 72 | #2,531 | — | — |
| 2011 | 70 | #2,574 | — | — |
| 2010 | 85 | #2,268 | — | — |
| 2009 | 89 | #2,218 | — | — |
| 2008 | 96 | #2,117 | — | — |
| 2007 | 106 | #1,947 | — | — |
| 2006 | 88 | #2,197 | — | — |
| 2005 | 118 | #1,686 | — | — |
| 2004 | 134 | #1,506 | — | — |
| 2003 | 122 | #1,584 | — | — |
| 2002 | 133 | #1,437 | — | — |
| 2001 | 141 | #1,358 | — | — |
| 2000 | 139 | #1,354 | — | — |
| 1999 | 155 | #1,226 | — | — |
| 1998 | 145 | #1,256 | — | — |
| 1997 | 166 | #1,130 | — | — |
| 1996 | 175 | #1,059 | — | — |
| 1995 | 205 | #923 | — | — |
| 1994 | 199 | #940 | — | — |
| 1993 | 232 | #845 | — | — |
| 1992 | 230 | #861 | — | — |
| 1991 | 273 | #755 | — | — |
| 1990 | 307 | #690 | — | — |
| 1989 | 312 | #656 | — | — |
| 1988 | 320 | #622 | — | — |
| 1987 | 356 | #562 | — | — |
| 1986 | 386 | #529 | — | — |
| 1985 | 452 | #469 | — | — |
| 1984 | 490 | #429 | — | — |
| 1983 | 545 | #400 | — | — |
| 1982 | 582 | #399 | — | — |
| 1981 | 494 | #430 | — | — |
| 1980 | 401 | #505 | — | — |
| 1979 | 425 | #479 | — | — |
| 1978 | 365 | #512 | — | — |
| 1977 | 330 | #542 | — | — |
| 1976 | 262 | #606 | — | — |
| 1975 | 236 | #649 | — | — |
| 1974 | 217 | #681 | — | — |
| 1973 | 246 | #621 | — | — |
| 1972 | 250 | #622 | — | — |
| 1971 | 260 | #638 | — | — |
| 1970 | 197 | #751 | — | — |
| 1969 | 150 | #849 | — | — |
| 1968 | 159 | #798 | — | — |
| 1967 | 99 | #1,037 | — | — |
| 1966 | 93 | #1,092 | — | — |
| 1965 | 91 | #1,103 | — | — |
| 1964 | 77 | #1,259 | — | — |
| 1963 | 88 | #1,165 | — | — |
| 1962 | 66 | #1,369 | — | — |
| 1961 | 58 | #1,473 | — | — |
| 1960 | 72 | #1,297 | — | — |
| 1959 | 54 | #1,470 | — | — |
| 1958 | 29 | #2,092 | — | — |
| 1957 | 22 | #2,453 | — | — |
| 1956 | 21 | #2,499 | — | — |
| 1955 | 17 | #2,779 | — | — |
| 1954 | 13 | #3,240 | — | — |
| 1953 | 10 | #3,840 | — | — |
| 1952 | 8 | #4,306 | — | — |
| 1951 | 7 | #4,607 | — | — |
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).