Krystle
Feminine · “ice”
Krystle is overwhelmingly a girls’ name — 12,938 girls against 44 boys since 1880.
Krystle is Crystal rewritten twice — a K for the C and an -le for the -al — and behind both spellings is a Greek word for ice. The ancients believed rock crystal was water frozen so hard it could never melt.
How old is the name Krystle?
Krystle first appears in US birth records in 1969 — 56 years ago. The typical Krystle alive today was born around 1986, making them about 39 years old. About 12,500 people named Krystle are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Krystle most popular?
Krystle peaked in 1985, reaching #111 nationally. See the whole 1985 chart.
Where it comes from
From krystallos to Krystle
The story of Krystle
Crystal became an English girls' name in the nineteenth century, among the mineral and jewel names that arrived alongside Ruby, Pearl and Opal. It rose sharply in twentieth-century America, and in the early 1980s a prime-time drama gave a central character the name spelled Krystle — a K-and-e respelling of exactly the kind then fashionable. The chart shows this spelling appearing and peaking inside the show's run, which is about as clean a case of cause and effect as naming records offer.
Meaning
ice, rock crystal
From the Greek krystallos, 'ice'. Greek and Roman writers used the same word for quartz because they took the mineral to be permanently frozen water — an error with a long life, and the reason the English word crystal covers both glassware and geology.
How the name formed
- krystallos
- crystal
- Crystal
- Krystle
Related forms: Crystal · Krystal · Κρύσταλλος
Pronouncing Krystle
KRIS-tul
Two syllables, stress on the first. Krystle, Krystal and Crystal are all said the same way.
Nicknames for Krystle
Moderate
What the data says
146 years of official birth records
The long climb, and where it stands now
- 1981 — Krystle Carrington on Dynasty
The same years in position rather than babies
- First recorded
- 1969
- Most girls named
- 19852,579 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #111reached in 1985
- Change vs 2015
- −16.7%5 in 2016, from 6
Rank is a position, a count is a headcount, and they move independently — a name can hold its rank while the number of babies behind it falls. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration.
Krystle in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Crystal in English — spelling variant
- Krystal in English — spelling variant
- Κρύσταλλος in Greek — transliteration
Krystles among us
people named Krystle are estimated to be alive in the US today
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Is it right for you
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Fashion outlook
Krystle has already lived its whole cycle: it rose, had its era, and has stepped off the charts. The fashion question is behind it — what lies ahead is the waiting room where revivals begin, once a name's first generation has grown distant enough for it to sound fresh again.
Based on 146 years of naming cycles. How we read them
The trade-off
- The meaning is concrete and vivid, with a genuinely interesting piece of ancient science behind it.
- The written form is distinctive while the sound is completely familiar.
- It belongs to a coherent family of mineral names with a documented Victorian origin.
- Three spellings were in use at once and Crystal is much the commonest.
- The -le ending is not a natural English spelling of the sound, so it will be queried.
- The name is very tightly dated to the 1980s.
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Frequently asked
- How many Krystles are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 12,500 people named Krystle are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Krystle in 2025?
- Krystle is rarely given in the US today — it does not rank in the top 2000 girl names.
- Will my child share the name Krystle with classmates?
- Krystle will almost certainly be the only one in school.
- What explains the spikes and dips on Krystle's chart?
- Krystle climbed after 1981 — Krystle Carrington on Dynasty.
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