first name
CRISTAL
of 53,615 first names recorded in the 2020 Census
Of the 14,499 people named Cristal, 78.2% reported their origin as Hispanic or Latino, 14.3% as White and 5.1% as Black. Virtually all are female (99.6%). These count how people described themselves on the 2020 Census, not where the name comes from.
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Cristal peaked in 1991, when 679 babies got the name.
At least 15,936 babies have been given the name since 1947. Years SSA withheld, because fewer than 5 were born, are skipped rather than drawn as zero. * 2025 is the newest year published and it undercounts: a card application is filed some time after a birth.
Cristal by decade
Among all names given to American babies, its best decade was the 1990s, when it ranked #916. The largest share of babies named Cristal, 41.5%, were born between 1981 and 1996, as millennials.
Rank counts both sexes together, among every name SSA recorded that decade; the number under it is births. The 2020s run only to 2025. Generation years follow Pew Research Center, which has not named a generation after 2012.
Where Cristal is most common
Compared with all babies born in each state since 1910, Cristal has been most common in California (3.6×), Nevada (3.6×), and Texas (2.9×), and least common in Indiana (0.12×).
12,880 births recorded by state, 1910–2025. 2× means twice as common as nationally. States with fewer than 30 such births are left blank, and SSA withholds any year with fewer than 5 in a state, so small states read low.
Either side of Cristal
Spelled almost the same
8 first names in the 2020 Census spelled within a letter or two of Cristal, most common first.
Also a last name
As a last name, Cristal ranks #68,029 of 156,621, with 312 people. See Cristal as a last name
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