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Cristel

Cristel is a girl's name that peaked in 2011, when it was the 2,043rd most popular in the United States. In 2025 it ranked 3,903rd. About 1,000 Cristels are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 14.

Popularity, 1880–2025

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

girls named Cristel

By the numbers

Total US births
1,037
Estimated living today
1,000
Median age today
14
Peak year
2011
Best rank
2,043rd
Rank in 2025
3,903rd
First recorded
1930

How old the living Cristels are

Born with the name each year, and how many of them are alive today, 1880 to 2025 0 25 50 75 100 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

born that year still alive today

Of the 1,037 babies given the name since 1930, about 1,000 are alive — 98 in every hundred. Roughly 620 of them are children and 11 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2011 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 Cristel is most common

Relative to how many babies each state records, Cristel is most concentrated in Texas (5.7×), California (4.0×).

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

Names of 2011

The most popular girls’ names the year Cristel peaked:

All the names of 2011

Cristel elsewhere

CountrySpelling BirthsBest rank
Italy girls Cristel 1,089
France girls Cristel 750 460th
France boys Cristel 10 1,689th

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.

Cristel: rank by region

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

Region Spelling Place Children
Valle d'Aosta/Vallée d'Aoste Cristel 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.

Cristel 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 Cristel 13 26

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 Cristel lives in Spain

Not a count of births but of people: 214 women called Cristel 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
Castellón/Castelló Cristel 10 0.032 1,644
Lugo Cristel 5 0.030 1,435
Asturias Cristel 12 0.023 1,777
Coruña, A Cristel 13 0.022 1,607
Valencia/València Cristel 25 0.018 2,279
Girona Cristel 7 0.017 2,558

Listed in 12 of Spain's 52 provinces. In the other 40 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

Cristel 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.