Kristel
#4,265 for girls in 2025, 33 births
- Peak · girls
- 1982 · 145 births
- Debut · girls
- 6 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 2,992since 1952
Kristel over time
Rank among girls' names. Kristel has never cracked the top 1,000 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | |
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| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #4,265 | 33 |
| 2024 | #3,395 | 46 |
| 2023 | #2,646 | 66 |
| 2022 | #3,416 | 46 |
| 2021 | #4,090 | 35 |
| 2020 | #4,358 | 31 |
| 2019 | #3,718 | 40 |
| 2018 | #6,792 | 17 |
| 2017 | #5,338 | 24 |
| 2016 | #3,707 | 41 |
| 2015 | #4,069 | 36 |
| 2014 | #4,455 | 32 |
| 2013 | #5,013 | 27 |
| 2012 | #3,419 | 47 |
| 2011 | #1,708 | 122 |
| 2010 | #4,494 | 32 |
| 2009 | #5,891 | 23 |
| 2008 | #6,559 | 20 |
| 2007 | #7,394 | 17 |
| 2006 | #6,840 | 18 |
| 2005 | #6,820 | 17 |
| 2004 | #6,216 | 19 |
| 2003 | #6,299 | 18 |
| 2002 | #5,673 | 20 |
| 2001 | #5,822 | 19 |
| 2000 | #5,491 | 20 |
| 1999 | #7,716 | 12 |
| 1998 | #7,104 | 13 |
| 1997 | #4,660 | 22 |
| 1996 | #3,831 | 28 |
| 1995 | #4,677 | 21 |
| 1994 | #4,016 | 26 |
| 1993 | #3,351 | 33 |
| 1992 | #3,144 | 36 |
| 1991 | #2,484 | 50 |
| 1990 | #2,571 | 46 |
| 1989 | #2,147 | 57 |
| 1988 | #2,131 | 54 |
| 1987 | #2,780 | 35 |
| 1986 | #2,052 | 52 |
| 1985 | #1,439 | 87 |
| 1984 | #1,266 | 100 |
| 1983 | #1,071 | 129 |
| 1982 | #1,016 | 145 |
| 1981 | #1,082 | 129 |
| 1980 | #1,216 | 108 |
| 1979 | #1,503 | 78 |
| 1978 | #1,169 | 108 |
| 1977 | #1,358 | 83 |
| 1976 | #1,535 | 66 |
| 1975 | #1,672 | 57 |
| 1974 | #1,709 | 53 |
| 1973 | #1,374 | 72 |
| 1972 | #1,594 | 57 |
| 1971 | #1,857 | 47 |
| 1970 | #1,804 | 49 |
| 1969 | #2,102 | 36 |
| 1968 | #2,538 | 24 |
| 1967 | #2,376 | 26 |
| 1966 | #2,453 | 24 |
| 1965 | #2,345 | 26 |
| 1964 | #2,675 | 22 |
| 1963 | #3,176 | 16 |
| 1962 | #3,782 | 12 |
| 1961 | #2,839 | 19 |
| 1960 | #3,357 | 14 |
| 1959 | #4,625 | 8 |
| 1958 | #5,408 | 6 |
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| 1956 | #3,696 | 11 |
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| 1954 | #3,490 | 11 |
| 1953 | #3,269 | 12 |
| 1952 | #4,908 | 6 |
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The first year at least five girls were named Kristel! It came in at #4,908, and was given to 6 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1955, when fewer than 5 girls a year got the name.
Where Kristel is popular in 1982
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Minnesota#448 · 1 in 4,178
- Arizona#457 · 1 in 2,881
- Virginia#638 · 1 in 6,160
- Indiana#651 · 1 in 7,036
- Louisiana#683 · 1 in 5,280
Best ever in a state: #373 in Minnesota, 1980.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| Minnesota | #448 | 7 | 1 in 4,178 |
| Arizona | #457 | 7 | 1 in 2,881 |
| Virginia | #638 | 5 | 1 in 6,160 |
| Indiana | #651 | 5 | 1 in 7,036 |
| Louisiana | #683 | 6 | 1 in 5,280 |
| Illinois | #700 | 12 | 1 in 6,202 |
| New Jersey | #813 | 5 | 1 in 7,653 |
| Ohio | #823 | 7 | 1 in 10,210 |
| Texas | #860 | 16 | 1 in 8,120 |
| California | #1,055 | 17 | 1 in 10,926 |
| New York | #1,438 | 6 | 1 in 17,124 |
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See more about Kristel
- 870 spots since 2024 (#3,395 → #4,265)
- 93 spots since 2020 (#4,358 → #4,265)
- 196 spots since 2015 (#4,069 → #4,265)
- Debuted 1952
- Peaked 1982 at #1,016 (145 births)
- Births halved by 1986, 4 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 11,678 girls born in 1982 were named Kristel (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 48,705 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
- 29.9% of all girls named Kristel (896) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
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| 1950s | 54 | #3,269 (1953) | #4,233 |
| 1960s | 219 | #2,102 (1969) | #2,764 |
| 1970s | 670 | #1,169 (1978) | #1,558 |
| 1980s | 896 | #1,016 (1982) | #1,620 |
| 1990s | 287 | #2,484 (1991) | #4,355 |
| 2000s | 191 | #5,491 (2000) | #6,301 |
| 2010s | 418 | #1,708 (2011) | #4,271 |
| 2020s | 257 | #2,646 (2023) | #3,695 |
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.
Kristel in 1982
Top girls' names in 1982
More about 1982
girls
1,693,325 girls got a published name in 1982; 1 in 11,678 of them was named Kristel, which outranked 91.8% of the 12,332 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 17.3% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).