Entry № 2194 · English origin

Crystal Crystal — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ KRIS-tal /
Gender
Girl
Origin
English
Meaning
"Clear ice / mineral (peaked #9 in 1982; the gem)"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Modern (English)

A name that means "clear ice / mineral (peaked #9 in 1982; the gem)".

Crystal is from the Greek krystallos ("ice, rock crystal").

Clear ice. Peaked at #9 in 1982; Crystal Bird Fauset was the first Black woman in a US state legislature.

The name in its native script.

Crystal
Transliteration
Crystal
Pronunciation
/ ˈkrɪs.təl /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Crystal stands.

Crystal does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Crystals before her.

Real people
Crystal Gayle
American country singer.
born 1951
Crystal Bird Fauset
First Black woman in a US state legislature.
1894 – 1965
In fiction
Krystle Carrington
Dynasty.
1981

Names connected to Crystal.

The number behind Crystal.

8

The Visionary

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Crystal reduce to 8, The Visionary. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.