Crystal Girl
How popular is Crystal?
#1,144 girl name in 2025
202 baby girls were named Crystal in the US in 2025, making it the 1144th most popular girl name.
Crystal popularity over time
Boys Girls
| Rank in 2025 | #1,144 for girls (▲ 25 from 2024) |
|---|---|
| Babies in 2025 | 202 girls |
| 10-year trend | Falling fast (-64% babies vs 2015) |
| Earlier ranks | #556 in 2015, #856 in 2020 |
| Peak year | 1982 (19,099 girls) |
| Highest rank | #9 in 1982 |
| First recorded | 1884 |
| Boys vs girls (last 10 years) | 0% boys, 100% girls |
| Chance a classmate shares it | 0.1% in a class of 25 kids born in 2025 |
Crystal counting every spelling
Social Security counts each spelling as its own name. Adding together the spellings that sound alike, the Crystal family of names ranked #643 for girls in 2025 (#576 the year before), with 422 babies in all.
| Spelling | Girls in 2025 | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Crystal | 202 | 48% |
| Krystal | 88 | 21% |
| Cristal | 37 | 9% |
| Kristel | 33 | 8% |
| Cristel | 37 | 9% |
| Kristal | 14 | 3% |
| Kristell | 11 | 3% |
Spellings are grouped by how they sound, using our own rules, so a few groupings may not match how your family says the name.
Where Crystal is most popular
Babies named Crystal per 1,000 girls born in each state, 2021 to 2025. Darker means more common.
- Texas: 0.3 per 1,000 (215 girls)
- Virginia: 0.2 per 1,000 (40 girls)
- Illinois: 0.2 per 1,000 (48 girls)
- California: 0.2 per 1,000 (169 girls)
- New Jersey: 0.2 per 1,000 (32 girls)
Crystal by decade
| Decade | Baby girls | Best rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 42 | #640 |
| 1890s | 185 | #507 |
| 1900s | 394 | #426 |
| 1910s | 1,067 | #506 |
| 1920s | 1,086 | #629 |
| 1930s | 816 | #675 |
| 1940s | 1,921 | #453 |
| 1950s | 9,014 | #212 |
| 1960s | 24,973 | #118 |
| 1970s | 73,757 | #18 |
| 1980s | 141,007 | #9 |
| 1990s | 51,098 | #39 |
| 2000s | 18,905 | #132 |
| 2010s | 6,403 | #317 |
| 2020s | 1,446 | #856 |
Girl names about as popular as Crystal
Questions
- Is Crystal a boy or girl name?
- Crystal is mostly a girl name. Over the last 10 years, 100% of babies named Crystal were girls.
- How popular is the name Crystal?
- 202 baby girls were named Crystal in the US in 2025, making it the 1144th most popular girl name.
- When was Crystal most popular?
- Crystal peaked in 1982, when 19,099 girls were given the name. Its highest rank was #9 in 1982.
- How many people are named Crystal?
- 333,298 babies have been named Crystal in the US since 1880. We estimate about 316,260 of them are alive in 2026, with a median age of 43.
- Where is Crystal most popular?
- From 2021 to 2025, Crystal was most common in Texas, at 0.3 of every 1,000 girls born there.
Source: Social Security Administration baby name data, 1880 to 2025 (names given to at least 5 babies of a sex in a year). Living-people and median-age figures are our estimates using US life tables. How we calculate.