Cristel
given name · Latin script
Meaning: kestrel (any of various birds of prey)
A female name· listed as female by the registers that count names by sex
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 31 countries · latest register: INEC, 2024
/kɾistel/(machine-generated) Spanish · model-generated
Cristel is a female given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the Philippines than in any other country.
- CRCosta Rica1 in 4K(measured from records)
- PAPanama≈1 in 4.3K
- ECEcuador1 in 5.9K
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.
- Philippines (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 148 (measured from records)
- 1 in 4.0K (inferred from the name graph)
≈3,100 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Costa Rica
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)kestrel (any of various birds of prey)
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Where in the world
(measured from records)Cristel 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.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PH Philippines | — | ≈3,100 est. | ≈1 in 38K | — | Cristel | 42 |
| MX Mexico | — | ≈2,900 est. | ≈1 in 45K | 5 | Cristel | 97 |
| EC Ecuador | — | 2,857 | 1 in 5.9K | 2.9K | Cristel | 27 |
| CR Costa Rica | #342 | 1,265 | 1 in 4K | 1.3K | Cristel | 31 |
| PE Peru | — | ≈1,200 est. | ≈1 in 28K | — | Cristel | 42 |
| PA Panama | #201 | ≈1,000 est. | ≈1 in 4.3K | 3 | Cristel | 23 |
| CL Chile | — | ≈780 est. | ≈1 in 25K | 5 | Cristel | 35 |
| PY Paraguay | #828 | ≈620 est. | ≈1 in 11K | — | Cristel | 14 |
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: RENAPO — name frequencies (eduardofv dataset); INEC — civil registry names; Tribunal Electoral — Boletín, postulaciones for the 5 May 2024 general election; TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names; SRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021). 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 recorded senses
(measured from records)Cristel is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Romanian, obsolete form of cristei
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Cristel Braakb. 1960NLDutch actress (1960-2013)
- Cristel Vahtrab. 1972EEEstonian cross-country skier (born 1972)
- Cristel Espinozab. 1996CRCosta Rican sport cyclist
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them
(machine-generated)A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence
(measured from records)51 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 31 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Cristel mean, and where does it come from?
- kestrel (any of various birds of prey) Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Cristel?
- It depends on the language: in Spanish /kɾistel/; in French /kʁis.tɛl/ (Wiktionary). Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- Is Cristel a male or female name?
- Cristel is a female name. National registers that list it by sex list it as female: Ecuador (INEC, 2024), United States (Census Bureau, 2020), France (INSEE, 1986) and Netherlands (Meertens NVB), among others.
- Which countries have the most people named Cristel?
- Mondonomo estimates about 3.1 thousand people named Cristel in the Philippines, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled cristel. After it come Mexico, Ecuador, Costa Rica and Peru; the country table on this page ranks them.
- Where is Cristel most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Cristel is densest in Costa Rica — about 1 in 4.0 thousand people — even though Philippines holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Cristel?
- In Ecuador, the national register counted 2,857 people named Cristel in 2024, about 1 in 5.9 thousand residents.
- How common is Cristel compared with other names?
- In Panama, Cristel is the 201st most common given name of 24,657 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Cristel?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/cristelThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
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, “Cristel” — the 201st most common given name in Panama. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.