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Cristal

About 15,936 American babies have been named Cristal since 1947, most of them around 1991. In 2025 it ranked 3,903rd. About 16,000 Cristals are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 29.

Popularity, 1880–2025

Births per year, 1880 to 2025 0 200 400 600 800 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

girls named Cristal boys named Cristal

By the numbers

Total US births
15,936
Estimated living today
16,000
Median age today
29
Peak year
1991
Best rank
377th
Rank in 2025
3,903rd
First recorded
1947
Girls / boys
15,881 / 55

How old the living Cristals are

Born with the name each year, and how many of them are alive today, 1880 to 2025 0 200 400 600 800 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

born that year still alive today

Of the 15,936 babies given the name since 1947, about 16,000 are alive — 98 in every hundred. Roughly 2,300 of them are children and 130 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1996 and half after.

An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.

Where Cristal is most common

Relative to how many babies each state records, Cristal is most concentrated in California (3.6×), Nevada (3.5×), Texas (2.9×), Arizona (2.6×).

Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.

Names of 1991

The most popular girls’ names the year Cristal peaked:

All the names of 1991

Cristal elsewhere

CountrySpelling BirthsBest rank
Italy girls Cristal 533
France girls Cristal 465 1,338th
England and Wales girls Cristal 41 2,530th

Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.

Cristal: rank by region

In 2024, Cristal was among the 10 most common names in 1 region of Italy.

Region Spelling Place Children
Valle d'Aosta/Vallée d'Aoste Cristal 8 1

Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Italy after 10 names – and published nothing after. So a region missing here is one where the name fell outside what was published, not one where it went unused. Places are shared where names tie, and the further down a list a place is, the more names can share it.

Cristal among the living

How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.

Country Spelling First forename Any forename
Finland girls Cristal 10 21

A count of people on a register – Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.

Where Cristal lives in Spain

Not a count of births but of people: 214 women called Cristal were living in Spain on 1 January 2025, of every age, born in any year. Where they live is not spread evenly.

Women: the provinces where it is densest

Province Spelling People Per thousand Place there
Ourense Cristal 10 0.063 894
Pontevedra Cristal 19 0.039 1,170
Rioja, La Cristal 5 0.030 1,693
Coruña, A Cristal 11 0.019 1,798
Asturias Cristal 6 0.011 2,742
Málaga Cristal 10 0.011 3,435

Listed in 10 of Spain's 52 provinces. In the other 42 it is either held by fewer than 5 people – the point below which the source withholds a name – or it fell past the 5,000 names the source will print for one province. Neither means nobody there is called it. The rate is the source's own, not a share worked out here.

Related names

Cristal against another name

Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.

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Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.