Cristel Girl
How popular is Cristel?
#3,902 girl name in 2025
37 baby girls were named Cristel in the US in 2025, making it the 3902nd most popular girl name.
Cristel popularity over time
| Rank in 2025 | #3,902 for girls (▼ 677 from 2024) |
|---|---|
| Babies in 2025 | 37 girls |
| 10-year trend | Rising (+32% babies vs 2015) |
| Earlier ranks | #4,852 in 2015, #4,646 in 2020 |
| Peak year | 2011 (95 girls) |
| Highest rank | #2,043 in 2011 |
| First recorded | 1930 |
| Boys vs girls (last 10 years) | 0% boys, 100% girls |
| Chance a classmate shares it | 0.0% in a class of 25 kids born in 2025 |
Cristel counting every spelling
Social Security counts each spelling as its own name. Adding together the spellings that sound alike, the Crystal family of names ranked #643 for girls in 2025 (#576 the year before), with 422 babies in all.
| Spelling | Girls in 2025 | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Crystal | 202 | 48% |
| Krystal | 88 | 21% |
| Cristal | 37 | 9% |
| Kristel | 33 | 8% |
| Cristel | 37 | 9% |
| Kristal | 14 | 3% |
| Kristell | 11 | 3% |
Spellings are grouped by how they sound, using our own rules, so a few groupings may not match how your family says the name.
Where Cristel is most popular
Babies named Cristel per 1,000 girls born in each state, 2021 to 2025. Darker means more common.
- New Jersey: 0.0 per 1,000 (5 girls)
- Texas: 0.0 per 1,000 (21 girls)
- California: 0.0 per 1,000 (19 girls)
- New York: 0.0 per 1,000 (5 girls)
- Florida: 0.0 per 1,000 (5 girls)
Cristel by decade
| Decade | Baby girls | Best rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1930s | 5 | #4,548 |
| 1950s | 5 | #6,085 |
| 1960s | 12 | #5,167 |
| 1970s | 114 | #3,539 |
| 1980s | 92 | #5,043 |
| 1990s | 91 | #7,423 |
| 2000s | 119 | #5,740 |
| 2010s | 351 | #2,043 |
| 2020s | 248 | #3,219 |
Girl names about as popular as Cristel
Questions
- Is Cristel a boy or girl name?
- Cristel is mostly a girl name. Over the last 10 years, 100% of babies named Cristel were girls.
- How popular is the name Cristel?
- 37 baby girls were named Cristel in the US in 2025, making it the 3902nd most popular girl name.
- When was Cristel most popular?
- Cristel peaked in 2011, when 95 girls were given the name. Its highest rank was #2,043 in 2011.
- How many people are named Cristel?
- 1,037 babies have been named Cristel in the US since 1880. We estimate about 1,017 of them are alive in 2026, with a median age of 15.
- Where is Cristel most popular?
- From 2021 to 2025, Cristel was most common in New Jersey, at 0.0 of every 1,000 girls born there.
Source: Social Security Administration baby name data, 1880 to 2025 (names given to at least 5 babies of a sex in a year). Living-people and median-age figures are our estimates using US life tables. How we calculate.