girls:
331.7k births since 1884
#115 (98th percentile)
boys:
1.2k births since 1918
#3421 (25th percentile)
overall:
332.9k births since 1884
#225 (97th percentile)
The name Crystal is the #225 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 332,880 recorded births since 1884. This represents the 97.1% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 97.1% of all names). For girls, it ranks #115 (98.0% percentile) for all time with 331,695 births since 1884. For boys, it ranks #3,421 (25.4% percentile) for all time with 1,185 births since 1918.
Crystal first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1884 (1884 for girls and 1918 for boys). Birth data for Crystal is available in 139 out of the 140 years between 1884 and 2023 (139 years for girls and 50 years for boys). 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.
The name Crystal has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 99.6% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Crystal reached its peak popularity in 1982, achieving the 99.0% percentile (ranked #9) with 10,528 births per million. The name was most common in 1982, with 10,528 births per million (ranked 99.0% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 1984, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Crystal ranks #753 for girls (20.5% percentile) with 114 births per million, which is 1.1% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Crystal reached its peak popularity in 1983, achieving the 11.2% percentile (ranked #610) with 44 births per million. The name was most common in 1983, with 44 births per million (ranked 11.2% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 2010.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Crystal".
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Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Crystal. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 87.0% confident that Crystal is pronounced as KRIH-stuhl, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is KRIH-suhl, at 13.0% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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