How Many People Are Named Chrystal?

14,171

people named Chrystal are alive in the United States today (estimate)

About 1 in 24,118 people in the US has this name

Based on 15,765 babies named Chrystal in Social Security records from 1894 to 2025, and the share of each birth year still alive in 2025.

Popularity Rank

#1,974

💎 Rare

Rank Among Girl Names

#1,075

See the top 100

Peak Year

1982

792 births

Trend

→

Stable (last 10 years)

📖 Name Origin & Meaning

Origin: English
Pronunciation: KRIS-təl
Gender: Primarily Female

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 Chrystal in English. Counting Chrystal and these spellings together, about 456,866 people alive in the US have the name.

⚧ Gender Distribution

Female
100.0%
Male
0.0%

All of the babies given the name Chrystal in the records were girls.

👥 Age Distribution

The average person named Chrystal alive today is about 45 years old, and 81% are between 30 and 59. Half of them were between 39 and 51 in 2025.

Under 30 1,198
8.5%
30 to 59 11,509
81.2%
60 and over 1,465
10.3%

📈 Popularity Over Time

Chrystal first appears in the records in 1894 and was given most often in 1982, to 792 babies. In 2025, 8 babies got the name.

Babies given the name each year, 1894 to 2025

🏆 Rank History

Chrystal has never been one of the 100 most popular girls' names. Its best rank was #306, in 1983. In 2025 it ranked #11,147.

Girls
Rank in 2025#11,147
Best rank#306 (1983)
Years in the top 100None
Rank in its biggest decade#403 in the 1980s

📍 State-Wise Distribution

People named Chrystal alive today, by the state where they were born (estimate; state records start in 1910).

More people named Chrystal were born in California than in any other state: about 1,442 of those alive today. Compared with the national rate in the same years, Chrystal was given 2.3 times as often in North Carolina, 2 times in Oklahoma and 1.8 times in Kentucky.

California 1,442
Texas 1,254
New York 667
North Carolina 623
Ohio 604
Michigan 477
Florida 472
Illinois 463
Pennsylvania 378
Kentucky 327
Virginia 321
Indiana 296
Oklahoma 287
Missouri 285
Georgia 283
Louisiana 271
South Carolina 250
Washington 246
Tennessee 244
Alabama 198
New Jersey 161
Colorado 160
Arkansas 156
West Virginia 147
Maryland 144
Oregon 129
Massachusetts 128
Arizona 128
Wisconsin 110
Kansas 108
Mississippi 108
Iowa 76
New Mexico 75
Utah 53
Connecticut 46
Minnesota 20
Nebraska 19
Hawaii 15
Maine 15
Nevada 14
District of Columbia 11
Idaho 11
Montana 11
Rhode Island 7
Alaska 6
New Hampshire 6
South Dakota 5
Wyoming 5

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