Meaning not yet researched.
Krystal: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 88 in 2025. Its best rank was #53 in 1985.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #53 in 1985; #2,135 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Krystal in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#2,135 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1985, at #53.
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Krystal: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 88 girls in 2025. Peak: #53 in 1985 · most girls in one year: 5,933 (1985).
In 2025, 88 US girls were named Krystal, making it the 2,135th most common girls’ name of the year, up 53 places from #2,188 in 2024. That is 1 more than the 87 girls named Krystal in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #53, reached in 1985. That year also had the most girls given the name: 5,933. For comparison, it was #1,121 in 2015 and #4,146 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Krystal in 80 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1946 with 16 babies. In all, 75,376 US babies have been given the name, 99.7% of them girls and 0.3% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1980s, with 37,639 babies named Krystal.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 1,391 US girls were named Krystal; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 218. In 2025 that was about 1 in 18,264 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Krystal ranked highest in Virginia in 2025, at #991 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Crystal (333,298 babies since 1880), Krystle (12,982 babies since 1880), Kristal (12,079 babies since 1880) and Krysta (6,566 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Kristol, Kristyl and Krystalle 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: Kristol (255), Kristyl (211), Krystalle (74), Krystell (46), Kristil (10).
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 Krystal in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US girls. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five girls got the name, so 44 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Virginia | 7 | #991 | #901 |
| Washington | 5 | #1,156 | — |
| Florida | 11 | #1,292 | #1,090 |
| Illinois | 6 | #1,335 | #1,119 |
| New York | 7 | #1,748 | #1,698 |
| Texas | 11 | #1,982 | #699 |
| California | 8 | #2,396 | #754 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 88 | #2,135 | — | — |
| 2024 | 87 | #2,188 | — | — |
| 2023 | 116 | #1,769 | — | — |
| 2022 | 108 | #1,879 | — | — |
| 2021 | 139 | #1,519 | — | — |
| 2020 | 114 | #1,761 | — | — |
| 2019 | 153 | #1,448 | — | — |
| 2018 | 162 | #1,387 | — | — |
| 2017 | 206 | #1,187 | — | — |
| 2016 | 218 | #1,153 | — | — |
| 2015 | 228 | #1,121 | — | — |
| 2014 | 261 | #1,007 | — | — |
| 2013 | 301 | #858 | — | — |
| 2012 | 328 | #818 | — | — |
| 2011 | 364 | #757 | — | — |
| 2010 | 393 | #718 | — | — |
| 2009 | 455 | #651 | — | — |
| 2008 | 557 | #553 | — | — |
| 2007 | 619 | #511 | — | — |
| 2006 | 606 | #504 | — | — |
| 2005 | 719 | #428 | — | — |
| 2004 | 703 | #432 | — | — |
| 2003 | 736 | #412 | — | — |
| 2002 | 743 | #395 | — | — |
| 2001 | 795 | #373 | — | — |
| 2000 | 890 | #346 | — | — |
| 1999 | 929 | #329 | — | — |
| 1998 | 1,093 | #282 | — | — |
| 1997 | 1,188 | #247 | — | — |
| 1996 | 1,336 | #217 | — | — |
| 1995 | 1,566 | #189 | — | — |
| 1994 | 1,890 | #164 | — | — |
| 1993 | 2,211 | #142 | — | — |
| 1992 | 2,619 | #128 | 11 | #5,093 |
| 1991 | 2,957 | #112 | 15 | #3,937 |
| 1990 | 3,290 | #104 | 10 | #5,216 |
| 1989 | 3,787 | #82 | 24 | #2,658 |
| 1988 | 4,019 | #74 | 15 | #3,449 |
| 1987 | 4,378 | #70 | 7 | #5,821 |
| 1986 | 4,929 | #61 | 28 | #2,083 |
| 1985 | 5,933 | #53 | 27 | #2,103 |
| 1984 | 3,933 | #74 | 17 | #2,764 |
| 1983 | 3,716 | #78 | 13 | #3,335 |
| 1982 | 3,504 | #83 | 12 | #3,601 |
| 1981 | 2,134 | #131 | — | — |
| 1980 | 1,163 | #220 | — | — |
| 1979 | 1,164 | #224 | 5 | #6,590 |
| 1978 | 1,074 | #230 | 6 | #5,466 |
| 1977 | 847 | #282 | — | — |
| 1976 | 550 | #375 | — | — |
| 1975 | 485 | #417 | — | — |
| 1974 | 473 | #417 | — | — |
| 1973 | 480 | #412 | — | — |
| 1972 | 455 | #426 | — | — |
| 1971 | 384 | #497 | — | — |
| 1970 | 337 | #552 | — | — |
| 1969 | 234 | #655 | — | — |
| 1968 | 236 | #627 | — | — |
| 1967 | 172 | #752 | — | — |
| 1966 | 174 | #747 | — | — |
| 1965 | 178 | #752 | — | — |
| 1964 | 197 | #743 | — | — |
| 1963 | 152 | #850 | — | — |
| 1962 | 133 | #919 | — | — |
| 1961 | 123 | #974 | — | — |
| 1960 | 121 | #975 | — | — |
| 1959 | 88 | #1,138 | — | — |
| 1958 | 84 | #1,160 | — | — |
| 1957 | 62 | #1,348 | — | — |
| 1956 | 45 | #1,591 | — | — |
| 1955 | 37 | #1,712 | — | — |
| 1954 | 36 | #1,718 | — | — |
| 1953 | 40 | #1,553 | — | — |
| 1952 | 59 | #1,242 | — | — |
| 1951 | 55 | #1,261 | — | — |
| 1950 | 8 | #4,146 | — | — |
| 1949 | 9 | #3,756 | — | — |
| 1948 | 6 | #4,951 | — | — |
| 1947 | 8 | #4,172 | — | — |
| 1946 | 16 | #2,432 | — | — |
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).