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Crystalyn vs Crystle

American parents have registered 1,187 Crystles since 1880, against 647 Crystalyns. Neither name reached five babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Crystalyn against Crystle, 1880 to 2025 0 40 80 120 160 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Crystalyn Crystle

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Of the 53 years in which either name was published, Crystle for 37 years and Crystalyn for 16 years. The lead changed hands 3 times.

Side by side

  Crystalyn Crystle
Total US births 6471,187
Most in one year 38131
Babies in 2025 under 5under 5
Estimated living today 6301,100
Median age today 3941
Peak year 19841985
Best rank 2,470th girls1,103rd girls
Rank in 2025 unrankedunranked
First recorded 19671952
Girls / boys 647 / 01,187 / 0

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Crystles alive today are over 41; half the Crystalyns are over 39. That is 2 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Where each one is strongest

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Crystalyn and Crystle.