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Cyrena vs Cyrstal

American parents have registered 962 Cyrstals since 1880, against 822 Cyrenas. Neither name reached five babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Cyrena against Cyrstal, 1880 to 2025 0 25 50 75 100 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Cyrena Cyrstal

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 77 years in which either name was published, Cyrena for 54 years and Cyrstal for 23 years. The lead changed hands 4 times.

Side by side

  Cyrena Cyrstal
Total US births 822962
Most in one year 2984
Babies in 2025 under 5under 5
Estimated living today 720930
Median age today 3642
Peak year 19931983
Best rank 3,681st girls1,400th girls
Rank in 2025 unrankedunranked
First recorded 19001967
Girls / boys 822 / 0962 / 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 Cyrstals alive today are over 42; half the Cyrenas are over 36. That is 6 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: Cyrena and Cyrstal.