Meaning not yet researched.
Kristel: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 33 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,016 in 1982.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,016 in 1982; #4,304 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Kristel in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#4,304 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1982, at #1,016.
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Kristel: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 33 girls in 2025. Peak: #1,016 in 1982 · most girls in one year: 145 (1982).
In 2025, 33 US girls were named Kristel, making it the 4,304th most common girls’ name of the year, down 869 places from #3,435 in 2024. That is 13 fewer than the 46 girls named Kristel in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #1,016, reached in 1982. That year also had the most girls given the name: 145. For comparison, it was #4,111 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Kristel in 72 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1952 with 6 babies. In all, 2,992 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 1980s, with 896 babies named Kristel.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 379 US girls were named Kristel; the busiest of those years was 2023, with 66. In 2025 that was about 1 in 48,705 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Krystal (75,376 babies since 1880), Kristal (12,079 babies since 1880) and Cristal (15,936 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Kristelle are summarised on this page. The open nickname list we use links it to Kris.
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.
Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in Dutch, Estonian and Swedish. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
Rare spellings summarised here: Kristelle (288).
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.
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 33 | #4,304 | — | — |
| 2024 | 46 | #3,435 | — | — |
| 2023 | 66 | #2,660 | — | — |
| 2022 | 46 | #3,446 | — | — |
| 2021 | 35 | #4,141 | — | — |
| 2020 | 31 | #4,401 | — | — |
| 2019 | 40 | #3,754 | — | — |
| 2018 | 17 | #6,963 | — | — |
| 2017 | 24 | #5,456 | — | — |
| 2016 | 41 | #3,744 | — | — |
| 2015 | 36 | #4,111 | — | — |
| 2014 | 32 | #4,507 | — | — |
| 2013 | 27 | #5,077 | — | — |
| 2012 | 47 | #3,441 | — | — |
| 2011 | 122 | #1,712 | — | — |
| 2010 | 32 | #4,544 | — | — |
| 2009 | 23 | #6,007 | — | — |
| 2008 | 20 | #6,705 | — | — |
| 2007 | 17 | #7,593 | — | — |
| 2006 | 18 | #7,009 | — | — |
| 2005 | 17 | #7,013 | — | — |
| 2004 | 19 | #6,378 | — | — |
| 2003 | 18 | #6,456 | — | — |
| 2002 | 20 | #5,786 | — | — |
| 2001 | 19 | #5,957 | — | — |
| 2000 | 20 | #5,592 | — | — |
| 1999 | 12 | #7,993 | — | — |
| 1998 | 13 | #7,347 | — | — |
| 1997 | 22 | #4,747 | — | — |
| 1996 | 28 | #3,892 | — | — |
| 1995 | 21 | #4,771 | — | — |
| 1994 | 26 | #4,066 | — | — |
| 1993 | 33 | #3,383 | — | — |
| 1992 | 36 | #3,177 | — | — |
| 1991 | 50 | #2,496 | — | — |
| 1990 | 46 | #2,587 | — | — |
| 1989 | 57 | #2,155 | — | — |
| 1988 | 54 | #2,138 | — | — |
| 1987 | 35 | #2,818 | — | — |
| 1986 | 52 | #2,062 | — | — |
| 1985 | 87 | #1,442 | — | — |
| 1984 | 100 | #1,269 | — | — |
| 1983 | 129 | #1,075 | — | — |
| 1982 | 145 | #1,016 | — | — |
| 1981 | 129 | #1,085 | — | — |
| 1980 | 108 | #1,223 | — | — |
| 1979 | 78 | #1,509 | — | — |
| 1978 | 108 | #1,170 | — | — |
| 1977 | 83 | #1,363 | — | — |
| 1976 | 66 | #1,541 | — | — |
| 1975 | 57 | #1,680 | — | — |
| 1974 | 53 | #1,719 | — | — |
| 1973 | 72 | #1,384 | — | — |
| 1972 | 57 | #1,603 | — | — |
| 1971 | 47 | #1,866 | — | — |
| 1970 | 49 | #1,811 | — | — |
| 1969 | 36 | #2,116 | — | — |
| 1968 | 24 | #2,585 | — | — |
| 1967 | 26 | #2,401 | — | — |
| 1966 | 24 | #2,484 | — | — |
| 1965 | 26 | #2,375 | — | — |
| 1964 | 22 | #2,713 | — | — |
| 1963 | 16 | #3,253 | — | — |
| 1962 | 12 | #3,902 | — | — |
| 1961 | 19 | #2,897 | — | — |
| 1960 | 14 | #3,445 | — | — |
| 1959 | 8 | #4,824 | — | — |
| 1958 | 6 | #5,765 | — | — |
| 1956 | 11 | #3,800 | — | — |
| 1954 | 11 | #3,596 | — | — |
| 1953 | 12 | #3,370 | — | — |
| 1952 | 6 | #5,214 | — | — |
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).