Crystäl

given name · Latin script

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

Crystäl is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country. Recorded meaning: From Middle English crystal, cristal, criȝstall, from Old English cristalla (“crystal”), a borrowing from Latin crystallum (“crystal, ice”) (later reinforced from Anglo-Norman cristall and Middle Fren.

rarermore common
  • USUnited States1 in 1.2K(measured from records)
  • CACanada≈1 in 1.7K
  • CNChina≈1 in 1.8K

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.

China (inferred from the name graph)

≈770,000 people, est.

#522 (measured from records)

of 15M given names

5 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
576 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 1.2K (inferred from the name graph)

United States

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

CrystälLatin(measured from records)
КристаллCyrillic(measured from records)
정재호Hangul(measured from records)
ক্রিসটালBengali(measured from records)
ΚρύσταλGreek(measured from records)

4 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Crystal in US United States, GB United Kingdom, CA Canada and 4 more and Krystal in GR Greece.

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)

Derivation of Crystäl: each step is the form the one above it came from.
Crystäl
  1. Middle Englishcrystal(measured from records)
  2. Old Englishcristalla“crystal”(measured from records)
  3. Latincrystallum“crystal“crystal, ice”(measured from records)
  4. Anglo-Normancristall(measured from records)
  5. Latincrystallum(measured from records)
  6. Ancient Greekκρύσταλλοςkrústallos“clear ice”(measured from records)
  7. Ancient Greek rootκρύοςkrúos“frost”(measured from records)
  8. Proto-Indo-European*krews-“hard“hard, hard outer surface, crust”(measured from records)

From Middle English crystal, cristal, criȝstall, from Old English cristalla (“crystal”), a borrowing from Latin crystallum (“crystal, ice”) (later reinforced from Anglo-Norman cristall and Middle French cristal, from Latin crystallum), from Ancient Greek κρύσταλλος (krústallos, “clear ice”), from κρύος (krúos, “frost”), from Proto-Indo-European *krews- (“hard, hard outer surface, crust”).

Sources 7

  • A concise dictionary of first names
  • Il grande libro dei nomi per bebè. Significato, origini, curiosità. Oltre 7000 nomi per bambine e bambini Significato,…
  • The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
  • 국립국어원 외래어 표기 용례 자료 (NIKL loanword/foreign-name transcription examples)
  • Wiktionary

Attested across 34 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Crystäl 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 Crystäl is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
CN China—≈770,000 est.≈1 in 1.8K—Crystal49
US United States#204274,1011 in 1.2K274KCrystal576
GB United Kingdom#399≈24,000 est.≈1 in 2.7K4Crystal211
CA Canada#247≈22,000 est.≈1 in 1.7K3Crystal261
IT Italy#687≈14,000 est.≈1 in 4.5K46Crystal50
GR Greece—≈5,800 est.≈1 in 1.8K—Krystal8
HK Hong Kong#293≈4,400 est.≈1 in 1.6K—Crystal57
SG Singapore#180≈3,400 est.≈1 in 1.8K—Crystal89

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; NRS — Baby names Scotland full list (1974–present); Alberta Open Government — Frequency and Ranking of Baby Names by Year and Gender; ISTAT — Contanomi newborn per-name series (1999–2024, JSONP backend). 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).

Evidence(measured from records)

No register attests this spelling yet

None of the official registers or reference works in our corpus lists Crystäl 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

What does the name Crystäl mean, and where does it come from?
From Middle English crystal, cristal, criȝstall, from Old English cristalla (“crystal”), a borrowing from Latin crystallum (“crystal, ice”) (later reinforced from Anglo-Norman cristall and Middle Fren… Recorded by A concise dictionary of first names and Il grande libro dei nomi per bebè. Significato, origini, curiosità. Oltre 7000 nomi per bambine e bambini Significato,… and 5 other sources.
Is Crystäl a male or female name?
Crystäl 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 Crystäl have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 770 thousand people named Crystäl in China, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled crystal.
Where is Crystäl most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Crystäl is densest in the United States — about 1 in 1.2 thousand people — even though China holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Crystäl?
In the United States, the national register counted 274,101 people named Crystäl in 2020, about 1 in 1.2 thousand residents.
How common is Crystäl compared with other names?
In Singapore, Crystäl is the 180th most common given name of 52,448 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, “Crystäl” — the 180th most common given name in Singapore. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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