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Crystalyn vs Crystina

American parents have registered 647 Crystalyns since 1880, against 624 Crystinas. Neither name reached five babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Crystalyn against Crystina, 1880 to 2025 0 10 20 30 40 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Crystalyn Crystina

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 45 years in which either name was published, Crystina for 24 years and Crystalyn for 21 years. The lead changed hands 12 times.

9 shorter spells of a year or two are folded into the spans above rather than listed separately.

Side by side

  Crystalyn Crystina
Total US births 647624
Most in one year 3833
Babies in 2025 under 5under 5
Estimated living today 630610
Median age today 3932
Peak year 19841987
Best rank 2,470th girls2,915th girls
Rank in 2025 unrankedunranked
First recorded 19671967
Girls / boys 647 / 0624 / 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 Crystalyns alive today are over 39; half the Crystinas are over 32. That is 7 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 Crystina.