How Many People Are Named Christal?
people named Christal are alive in the United States today (estimate)
About 1 in 37,637 people in the US has this name
Based on 9,710 babies named Christal in Social Security records from 1913 to 2025, and the share of each birth year still alive in 2025.
Popularity Rank
💎💎 Very Rare
Peak Year
352 births
Trend
Stable (last 10 years)
📖 Name Origin & Meaning
Meaning:
Variant of CRYSTAL.
Source of the meaning, origin, pronunciation and related names: Behind the Name.
Same Sound, Other Spellings
These names are pronounced like Christal in English. Counting Christal and these spellings together, about 456,866 people alive in the US have the name.
⚧ Gender Distribution
All of the babies given the name Christal in the records were girls.
👥 Age Distribution
The average person named Christal alive today is about 43 years old, and 71% are between 30 and 59. Half of them were between 34 and 52 in 2025.
📈 Popularity Over Time
Christal first appears in the records in 1913 and was given most often in 1978, to 352 babies. In 2025, 13 babies got the name.
Babies given the name each year, 1913 to 2025
🏆 Rank History
Christal has never been one of the 100 most popular girls' names. Its best rank was #525, in 1978. In 2025 it ranked #7,972.
| Girls | |
|---|---|
| Rank in 2025 | #7,972 |
| Best rank | #525 (1978) |
| Years in the top 100 | None |
| Rank in its biggest decade | #594 in the 1970s |
📍 State-Wise Distribution
People named Christal alive today, by the state where they were born (estimate; state records start in 1910).
More people named Christal were born in California than in any other state: about 966 of those alive today. Compared with the national rate in the same years, Christal was given about 1.7 times as often in Arkansas, North Carolina and Texas.
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