girls:
75k births since 1946
#450 (92nd percentile)
boys:
190 births since 1978
#4396 (4th percentile)
overall:
75.2k births since 1946
#832 (89th percentile)
The name Krystal is the #832 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 75,189 recorded births since 1946. This represents the 89.3% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 89.3% of all names). For girls, it ranks #450 (92.1% percentile) for all time with 74,999 births since 1946. For boys, it ranks #4,396 (4.1% percentile) for all time with 190 births since 1978.
Krystal first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1946 (1946 for girls and 1978 for boys).
The name Krystal has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 99.7% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Krystal reached its peak popularity in 1985, achieving the 93.5% percentile (ranked #53) with 3,213 births per million. The name was most common in 1985, with 3,213 births per million (ranked 93.5% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 1988, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Krystal ranks #838 for girls (11.5% percentile) with 65 births per million, which is 2.0% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Krystal reached its peak popularity in 1986, achieving the 3.3% percentile (ranked #682) with 15 births per million. The name was most common in 1986, with 15 births per million (ranked 3.3% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 1992.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Krystal".
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These similar-looking names have spellings that are closest to the spelling of "Krystal", in the sense that there are the fewest number of letter differences between the two spellings. This list excludes the 61 other name spellings that we've determined are also variations of "Crystal" based on shared pronunciations. Click here for more details on names that are pronounced like Crystal..
Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Krystal. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 90.0% confident that Krystal is pronounced as KRIH-stuhl, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is KRIH-suhl, at 10.0% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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