Crystal
Crystal is a girl's name that peaked in 1982, when it was the 9th most popular in the United States. In 2025 it ranked 1,144th. About 315,000 Crystals are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 42.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Crystal boys named Crystal
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 333,298
- Estimated living today
- 315,000
- Median age today
- 42
- Peak year
- 1982
- Best rank
- 9th
- Rank in 2025
- 1,144th
- First recorded
- 1884
- Girls / boys
- 332,114 / 1,184
How old the living Crystals are
born that year still alive today
Of the 333,298 babies given the name since 1884, about 315,000 are alive — 94 in every hundred. Roughly 10,000 of them are children and 10,000 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1983 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 the name comes from
Origin English
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Notable Crystals
- Crystal Reed (born 1985)American actress
- Crystal Eastman (1881–1928)American lawyer and feminist
- Crystal Lowe (born 1981)Canadian actress
- Crystal Dunn (born 1992)American soccer player
- Crystal Gayle (born 1951)American country music singer
- Crystal Waters (born 1961)American singer-songwriter
- Crystal Bowersox (born 1985)American singer, songwriter and actress
- Crystal Kay (born 1986)Japanese singer, songwriter, actress and radio host
People named Crystal with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Crystal is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Crystal is most concentrated in New Mexico (1.7×), Alaska (1.7×), North Carolina (1.6×), Nevada (1.4×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1982
The most popular girls’ names the year Crystal peaked:
Crystal elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| England and Wales girls | Crystal | 3,293 | 218th |
| France girls | Crystal | 1,535 | 715th |
| Italy girls | Crystal | 1,182 | — |
| New Zealand girls | Crystal | 828 | 55th |
| Ireland girls | Crystal | 171 | 280th |
| Scotland girls | Crystal | 164 | 273rd |
| Northern Ireland girls | Crystal | 25 | 282nd |
| Belgium girls | Crystal | 12 | 1,187th |
| Poland girls | Crystal | 4 birth registrations | 734th |
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.
Crystal: rank by region
In 2010, Crystal was given 5 times or more in 1 region of Belgium.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wallonia | Crystal | 442 | 6 |
In 2018, Crystal was among the 10 most common names in 1 region of Italy.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Valle d'Aosta/Vallée d'Aoste | Crystal | 10 | 1 |
Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Belgium below 5 children, 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.
Crystal 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 | Crystal | 11 | 38 |
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.
Related names
Crystal against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
Try it on yourself
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.