girls:
9.7k births since 1913
#1628 (72nd percentile)
overall:
9.7k births since 1913
#2724 (65th percentile)
The name Christal is the #2,724 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 9,689 recorded births since 1913. This represents the 64.8% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 64.8% of all names). For girls, it ranks #1,628 (71.5% percentile) for all time with 9,689 births since 1913.
Christal first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1913 (first recorded for girls in 1913). Birth data for Christal is available in 94 out of the 111 years between 1913 and 2023. The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
For girls, Christal reached its peak popularity in 1978, achieving the 41.1% percentile (ranked #446) with 214 births per million. The name was most common in 1978, with 214 births per million (ranked 41.1% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 1979, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Christal ranks #941 for girls (0.6% percentile) with 6 births per million, which is 2.9% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Christal".
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Our model found one way to pronounce the name Christal. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 100.0% confident that Christal is pronounced as KRIH-stuhl, which has 2 syllables.
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