Cristal
#3,903 for girls in 2025, 37 births · Last seen for boys in 1996 at #9,015
Given to girls 99.7% of the time
- Peak · girls
- 1991 · 679 births
- Debut · girls
- 5 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 15,881since 1947
Cristal over time
Rank among girls' names. Cristal has never cracked the top 300 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
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| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #3,903 | 37 | — | |
| 2024 | #2,585 | 68 | — | |
| 2023 | #3,181 | 51 | — | |
| 2022 | #3,470 | 45 | — | |
| 2021 | #3,435 | 45 | — | |
| 2020 | #3,061 | 52 | — | |
| 2019 | #2,784 | 60 | — | |
| 2018 | #2,145 | 88 | — | |
| 2017 | #2,108 | 91 | — | |
| 2016 | #2,149 | 90 | — | |
| 2015 | #1,984 | 100 | — | |
| 2014 | #1,768 | 117 | — | |
| 2013 | #1,435 | 157 | — | |
| 2012 | #1,273 | 188 | — | |
| 2011 | #1,066 | 231 | — | |
| 2010 | #1,156 | 210 | — | |
| 2009 | #879 | 312 | — | |
| 2008 | #758 | 388 | — | |
| 2007 | #688 | 426 | — | |
| 2006 | #662 | 436 | — | |
| 2005 | #614 | 459 | — | |
| 2004 | #562 | 510 | — | |
| 2003 | #655 | 405 | — | |
| 2002 | #625 | 408 | — | |
| 2001 | #552 | 477 | — | |
| 2000 | #536 | 484 | — | |
| 1999 | #570 | 441 | — | |
| 1998 | #526 | 480 | — | |
| 1997 | #505 | 484 | — | |
| 1996 | #463 | 541 | #9,015 | 5 |
| 1995 | #474 | 520 | #6,992 | 7 |
| 1994 | #461 | 550 | #8,800 | 5 |
| 1993 | #502 | 491 | — | |
| 1992 | #440 | 571 | #7,422 | 6 |
| 1991 | #377 | 679 | — | |
| 1990 | #520 | 458 | — | |
| 1989 | #567 | 392 | #6,941 | 6 |
| 1988 | #586 | 346 | #7,270 | 5 |
| 1987 | #522 | 390 | #6,089 | 6 |
| 1986 | #388 | 593 | #4,130 | 10 |
| 1985 | #705 | 248 | #6,523 | 5 |
| 1984 | #763 | 211 | — | |
| 1983 | #774 | 206 | — | |
| 1982 | #794 | 203 | — | |
| 1981 | #937 | 159 | — | |
| 1980 | #982 | 151 | — | |
| 1979 | #974 | 147 | — | |
| 1978 | #1,001 | 136 | — | |
| 1977 | #965 | 143 | — | |
| 1976 | #1,078 | 113 | — | |
| 1975 | #978 | 126 | — | |
| 1974 | #1,070 | 110 | — | |
| 1973 | #1,066 | 108 | — | |
| 1972 | #1,051 | 110 | — | |
| 1971 | #938 | 137 | — | |
| 1970 | #1,154 | 100 | — | |
| 1969 | #1,355 | 71 | — | |
| 1968 | #1,074 | 97 | — | |
| 1967 | #1,732 | 44 | — | |
| 1966 | #2,022 | 33 | — | |
| 1965 | #1,914 | 36 | — | |
| 1964 | #1,578 | 52 | — | |
| 1963 | #2,015 | 34 | — | |
| 1962 | #1,826 | 39 | — | |
| 1961 | #1,807 | 40 | — | |
| 1960 | #1,764 | 41 | — | |
| 1959 | #2,054 | 30 | — | |
| 1958 | #3,085 | 15 | — | |
| 1957 | #3,696 | 11 | — | |
| 1956 | #3,910 | 10 | — | |
| 1955 | #3,095 | 14 | — | |
| 1954 | #4,278 | 8 | — | |
| 1953 | #4,595 | 7 | — | |
| 1952 | #3,796 | 9 | — | |
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| 1950 | #4,738 | 6 | — | |
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| 1947 | #5,295 | 5 | — | |
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The first year at least five girls were named Cristal! It came in at #5,295, and was given to 5 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1947–1949, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
Where Cristal is popular in 2012
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- New Jersey#739 · 1 in 4,057
- California#742 · 1 in 4,267
- Texas#799 · 1 in 4,523
- Arizona#803 · 1 in 3,872
- Illinois#981 · 1 in 5,876
Best ever in a state: #113 in New Mexico, 1986.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| New Jersey | #739 | 9 | 1 in 4,057 |
| California | #742 | 49 | 1 in 4,267 |
| Texas | #799 | 35 | 1 in 4,523 |
| Arizona | #803 | 8 | 1 in 3,872 |
| Illinois | #981 | 10 | 1 in 5,876 |
| Florida | #987 | 13 | 1 in 6,125 |
| New York | #1,283 | 11 | 1 in 8,388 |
| Pennsylvania | #1,391 | 5 | 1 in 10,551 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the girls born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
See more about Cristal
- 1,318 spots since 2024 (#2,585 → #3,903)
- 842 spots since 2020 (#3,061 → #3,903)
- 1,919 spots since 2015 (#1,984 → #3,903)
- Biggest jump: 317 spots in 1986 (#705 → #388)
- Biggest drop: 277 spots in 2010 (#879 → #1,156)
- Debuted 1947
- Peaked 1991 at #377 (679 births)
- Births halved by 2009, 18 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 34 yrs · run 1979–2009
- Highest: 1 in 2,761 girls born in 1991 were named Cristal (0.04%)
- Latest: 1 in 43,440 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
- 32.8% of all girls named Cristal (5,215) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1940s | 5 | #5,295 (1947) | #5,295 |
| 1950s | 110 | #2,054 (1959) | #3,694 |
| 1960s | 487 | #1,074 (1968) | #1,709 |
| 1970s | 1,230 | #938 (1971) | #1,028 |
| 1980s | 2,899 | #388 (1986) | #702 |
| 1990s | 5,215 | #377 (1991) | #484 |
| 2000s | 4,305 | #536 (2000) | #653 |
| 2010s | 1,332 | #1,066 (2011) | #1,787 |
| 2020s | 298 | #2,585 (2024) | #3,273 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Cristal in 2012
Top girls' names in 2012
More about 2012
girls
1,761,053 girls got a published name in 2012; 1 in 9,367 of them was named Cristal, which outranked 93.5% of the 19,534 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.8% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #1,269Joslynn189
- #1,269Leilah189
- #1,269Rylynn189
- #1,273Cristal188
- #1,273Chasity188
- #1,273Donna188
- #1,273Evalynn188
- #1,279Areli187
- #1,279Lucinda187
- #1,279Maylin187
Tied with 5 names at #1,273; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.