Krystal
- Pronunciation
- [Krys-tal]
- Gender
- Female
- Meaning
- Variant Of Christiana. Follower Of Christ.
- Origin
- English
About the Name Krystal
Krystal is a modern phonetic respelling of Crystal, itself derived from the English word for transparent quartz or fine glassware, ultimately from the Greek krystallos, meaning "ice" or "clear ice" — reflecting the ancient belief that quartz was water permanently frozen by intense cold. As a given name, Crystal belongs to the tradition of gemstone and mineral names — alongside Ruby, Pearl, and Amber — rather than to the Christina family; Krystal is best treated as a sparkling, nature-derived name with Greek mineral roots. The K spelling reflects a 1980s American naming fashion for replacing conventional C openings with K to create a distinctive visual identity.
Krystal first entered the US Social Security top-1000 in 1982 and peaked in 1985 at rank #53, accumulating over 42,000 top-1000 births across its chart run. The name last appeared in the top-1000 in 2013 at rank #858, giving it a longer tail than many of its contemporaries.
Krystal carries the clean, sparkling imagery of its gemstone root, with the K spelling lending it a slightly edgier, more contemporary visual identity than the standard Crystal. The recorded variant is Krystal itself — the alternate spelling that has become a recognized form in its own right alongside the parent mineral name.
Source: U.S. Social Security Administration name data, 1880–2024 (methodology). By Marvin Tang.
Quick Facts About Krystal
US Popularity History (1982–2013)
Annual US births named Krystal by gender, from US Social Security Administration records. Peak year: 1985 with 5,933 girls named Krystal (girl rank #53 that year).
Where it stands today: in 2013, ranked #858 for girls (301 US births). That's 805 places below its 1985 peak.
Source: US Social Security Administration. Limitations: US birth-certificate data only; names appearing fewer than 5 times in a given year are suppressed for privacy; spelling variants are counted separately. For names that ranked outside the US top 100 before year 2000, only the years they reached the top 100 are shown — the chart may have gaps for less-popular historical names.
Paste the snippet below on any HTML page. Includes a credit link back to 9BabyNames — please keep it intact.
Variant Forms
| Name | Meaning | Gender | Origin |
|---|---|---|---|
| Krystal | Variant Of Christiana. Follower Of Christ. | Female | English |
Looking for names like Krystal?
A dedicated page with 60+ related names — spelling variants, rhymes, alliterations, same-origin matches, and shared meaning concepts — lives at its own URL so each kind of similarity gets a deeper treatment than fits here.
Compare Krystal to Other Popular Names
Side-by-side popularity charts and crossover years for Krystal against today's most popular girls-name peers (top 8 by US births in the last 10 years of SSA records).