Christél

given name · Latin script

Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Christél is a female given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Germany than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • DEGermany≈1 in 1.2K(inferred from the name graph)
  • BEBelgium≈1 in 1.2K
  • SESweden1 in 2.1K

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Germany (inferred from the name graph)

≈69,000 people, est.

Record sources
323 (measured from records)

corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling

strongest: highest-authority source

≈1 in 1.2K (inferred from the name graph)

Germany, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Spellings & scripts

(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Christel in DE Germany, US United States, BE Belgium and 2 more.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin

(measured from records)
recorded in Swedish

Christel är ursprungligen en tysk smekform till → Christina. De senaste åren har också den amerikanska formen Christelle börjat användas. I den rikssvenska almanackan 15 mars. I den finlandssvenska almanackan finns Kristel 24 juli.

Cited for this meaning 2

Attested across 16 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world

(measured from records)

Christél counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.

Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.

Where Christél is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
DE Germany#258≈69,000 est.≈1 in 1.2K—Christel169
FR France—≈21,000 est.≈1 in 3.2K21K—7
BE Belgium#300≈10,000 est.≈1 in 1.2K6Christel90
US United States—4,8401 in 69K4.8KChristel323
SE Sweden#3784,8391 in 2.1K4.8KChristel65
DK Denmark#4561,1811 in 5K1.2KChristel88

Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.

Registers cited: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024); Statbel — Prénoms nouveau-nés (newborns); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).

Other names spelled this way

(inferred from the name graph)

Christél is also recorded as 2 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • French given name33 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, Belgium, United States, Philippines

    Languages: French, Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Christel, Christèl, Chris'Tel, Christ'El

  • English (South Africa) given name2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in South Africa, Netherlands, United States

    Also written Christel

2 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Evidence

(measured from records)

No register attests this spelling yet

None of the official registers or reference works in our corpus lists Christél under this spelling. The statistics on this page rest on person records, and the related names are inferred from the name graph.

Frequently asked questions

Is Christél a male or female name?
Christél is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
In which country does Christél have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 69 thousand people named Christél in Germany, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled christel.
How common is the name Christél?
In the United States, the national register counted 4,840 people named Christél in 2020, about 1 in 69 thousand residents.
How common is Christél compared with other names?
In Germany, Christél is the 258th most common given name of 156,202 given names recorded there.

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About this data

measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated

These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.

Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.

Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.

Cite this page Mondonomo, “Christél” — the 258th most common given name in Germany. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.

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