Crystal (name)

Crystal
	The Crystal Ball by John William Waterhouse.
Pronunciation	/ˈkrɪstəl/
Gender	Female
Origin
Word/name	Greek
Meaning	Crystal
Other names
Related names	Chrystal, Kristal, Krystal, Cristal, Kristel, Kristol, Krystle

Crystal (/ˈkrɪstəl/) is a common English language female given name. Variant forms of the name include Kristal, Krystal, Cristal, Kristel, Krystle and Kristol.

As a feminine name, it is a 19th-century coinage, derived from crystal, a transparent quartz gemstone, usually colorless, that can be cut to reflect brilliant light, whose name comes from Ancient Greek κρύσταλλος krystallos "ice". It increased in usage along with other names suggestive of gemstones. As a masculine name, it is a Scottish diminutive of Christopher.^[1] Cristal is a Spanish variant. The Greek variant of the name is Crystallia or Krystallia (Κρυσταλλία). Usage of the name increased in the 1980s due to the character Krystle on the television series Dynasty.^[2]

Usage

The name and its spelling variants have been well used throughout the Anglosphere. It ranked among the top 1,000 names for newborn girls in the United States between 1884 and 2021 and was among the top 100 names for American girls between 1971 and 1997. It reached peak popularity in 1982, when it was the ninth most popular name given to newborn American girls. It was among the top 100 names given to newborn girls in Canada between 1973 and 1994, and was among the top 1,000 names for girls in the United Kingdom between 1996 and 2021, among the top 100 names for girls in New Zealand between 1982 and 2000, and among the top 100 names for girls in Australia between 1982 and 1991.^[3]

People

Crystal Allen (born 1972), American film actress
Crystal Bennett (1918–1987), British archaeologist
Crystal Bernard (born 1961), American singer-songwriter and actress
Crystal Bowersox (born 1985), American Idol season 9 runner-up
Crystal Chappell (born 1965), American actress and producer
Crystal Cox (born 1979), American athlete and contestant on the reality show Survivor: Gabon
Crystal Eastman (1881–1928), American lawyer
Crystal Marie Fleming (born 1981), American sociologist and author
Crystal Gayle (born 1951), American country music singer
Crystal Harris (born 1986), American glamour model, singer and television personality
Crystal Hayes (born 1984), American beauty queen
Crystal Huang (born 1977), American table tennis player
Crystal Hunt (born 1985), American actress
Krystal Jung (born 1994), Korean-American singer and actress
Crystal Kay (born 1986), Japanese singer and songwriter
Crystal Kelly (born 1986), American basketball player
Crystal Kiang (born 1990), Taiwanese-American figure skater
Crystal Lane-Wright (born 1985), British Paralympic cyclist
Crystal Langhorne (born 1986), American basketball player
Crystal Lewis (born 1969), American contemporary Christian/Gospel vocalist, songwriter and author
Crystal Liu, known as Liu Yifei (born 1987), Chinese-American actress, singer, and model
Crystal Lowe (born 1981), Canadian actress and model
Crystal Lucas-Perry, African-American stage actress
Crystal Mangum (born 1978), African-American woman noted for false allegations of rape
Crystal Poh (1999–2002), three-year-old victim of a 2002 murder case in Singapore
Crystal Reed (born 1985), American television and film actress
Crystal Renn (born 1986), American model
Crystal Soubrier, née Dunn (born 1992), American footballer
Crystal Taliefero (born 1963), American multi-instrumentalist and vocalist (Billy Joel band)
Crystal Waters (born 1961), American dance music singer and songwriter
Crystal Yi, known as Lee Soo-jung (born 1993), Korean-American singer-songwriter
Crystal Yu (born 1988), Chinese television, film and stage actress

Fictional characters

Crystal the Snow Fairy, from the Rainbow Magic book franchise
Crystal Winter, the daughter of the Snow King and Queen from the Mattel franchise Ever After High
Crystal, one of the characters in the manga Pokémon Adventures
Crystal, from Scooby-Doo and the Alien Invaders
Crystal, introduced in Frosty’s Winter Wonderland, voiced by Shelley Winter’s, as Frosty the Snowman’s wife.

Notes

^ Hanks, Patrick; Hardcastle, Kate; Hodges, Flavia (2006). Oxford Dictionary of First Names. Oxford University Press. p. 65-66. ISBN 0-19-861060-2.
^ "Crystal". nameberry.com. Retrieved 29 October 2023.
^ Campbell, Mike. "Crystal". behindthename.com. Behind the Name. Retrieved 29 October 2023.

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[1] Hanks, Patrick; Hardcastle, Kate; Hodges, Flavia (2006). Oxford Dictionary of First Names. Oxford University Press. p. 65-66. ISBN 0-19-861060-2.

[2] "Crystal". nameberry.com. Retrieved 29 October 2023.

[3] Campbell, Mike. "Crystal". behindthename.com. Behind the Name. Retrieved 29 October 2023.

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Origin
The Crystal Ball by John William Waterhouse.
Pronunciation	/ˈkrɪstəl/
Gender	Female
Word/name	Greek
Meaning	Crystal
Other names
Related names	Chrystal, Kristal, Krystal, Cristal, Kristel, Kristol, Krystle