The story in the numbers

331,907 girls have been named Crystal in the United States since 1884, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1982, with 19,098 births — 1.1% of all girls recorded that year.

The name has all but left use: 203 births in 2024, against 19,098 at the peak.

Half of everyone given the name was born by 1983, and the 1980s alone account for 42%. It has spent 136 of 145 years in the top 1,000, 27 of them in the top 100 and 1 in the top 10.

It is overwhelmingly a girl’s name: 1,185 boys have also been given it, 0.36% of the total.

Rank among girls, year by year

By decade

Decade

girls named Crystal

185

394

1,067

1,086

816

1,921

9,014

24,973

73,759

141,009

51,097

18,902

6,401

1,241

In 1982, its biggest year

Crystal was the 9th most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1982 were Jennifer, Jessica, Amanda, Sarah and Melissa. See all of 1982.

Names that rose and fell with Crystal

Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.

Other spellings in the data

What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.