MEANING & HISTORY
What does Crystal mean?
Crystal is an English word name, taken from the word for the clear material used in glassware and cut ornaments. The consulted etymological account takes the word back to Greek krystallos, ice.
Its use as a personal name is therefore a vocabulary-name formation rather than an ancient Greek personal name handed down unchanged. Clear, pure or sparkling may be associations chosen by families, but ice is the older lexical connection documented by the source.
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Pronunciation & syllables
A dictionary pronunciation or syllable division has not been verified for this exact spelling. Use the synthetic reading as a starting point and confirm the intended pronunciation with the family.
Origin and name formation
Language-specific accounts from the dictionary. A shared spelling can have more than one history.
CebuanoEtymology & source
From English Crystal.
a female given name from English
Wiktionary: Crystal (Cebuano) ↗ · Contributors · CC BY-SA 4.0
EnglishEtymology & source
A female given name from English.
Wiktionary: Crystal (English) ↗ · Contributors · CC BY-SA 4.0
Adapted from Wiktionary contributors via Kaikki/Wiktextract. Source accounts remain in their original English; editorial summaries and filters are adapted. Attribution and downloads
PSA · OFFICIAL BIRTH RECORDS
Crystal in the birth records
Exact spelling and stated year in the published name tables. Read the counts as individual snapshots.
Tables included: 2016, 2017, 2018, 2020, 2022, 2023 and 2024. The 2016 fact sheet lists five names per sex; the later tables include ten. Missing counts are not inferred. Sex categories follow the official tables, independently of dictionary gender labels. Explore the official tables →
Similar names to Crystal
Names with a similar opening or ending, ordered by spelling distance. Similar spelling does not imply the same meaning or origin.
Names in this collection
- Krystal♀Crystal; ultimately associated with ice
- Chantal♀Stony; from a French place-derived surname
- Cristobal·Christ-bearer, through Spanish Cristóbal
- Cris♂♀Short form of Christopher, Christian or Christine
- Crising♀Familiar form of names beginning Cris-
- Crispin♂Curly-haired, through Latin Crispinus
- Cristina♀Feminine form of Christian; belonging to Christ
- Crisanto♂Golden flower
What rhymes with Crystal?
No dictionary-confirmed rhyme match is available for this spelling in the current catalogue.
Explore Crystal further
Follow the sources
- Wiktionary contributors — Crystal (Cebuano) (opens in a new tab)
Explicit given-name sense and separately attributed etymology; no birth-frequency claim.
- Wiktionary contributors — Crystal (English) (opens in a new tab)
Language-specific given-name etymology; shared spelling does not prove every bearer has this origin.
- Behind the Name — crystal (opens in a new tab)
Consulted editorial entry, not user submissions: English word-name from crystal, ultimately Greek krystallos, ice.