Crystal (name)
Crystal 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 "ice". It increased in usage along with other names suggestive of gemstones. As a masculine name, it is a Scottish diminutive of Christopher. Cristal is a Spanish variant. The Greek variant of the name is Crystallia or Krystallia. Usage of the name increased in the 1980s due to the character Krystle on the television series Dynasty.
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.People
- Crystal Allen, American film actress
- Crystal Bennett, British archaeologist
- Crystal Bernard, American singer-songwriter and actress
- Crystal Bowersox, American Idol season 9 runner-up
- Crystal Bradford, American basketball player
- Crystal Chappell, American actress and producer
- Crystal Cox, American athlete and contestant on the reality show Survivor: Gabon
- Crystal Eastman, American lawyer
- Crystal Marie Fleming, American sociologist and author
- Crystal Gayle, American country music singer
- Crystal Harris, American glamour model, singer and television personality
- Crystal Hayes, American beauty queen
- Crystal Huang, American table tennis player
- Crystal Hunt, American actress
- Krystal Jung, Korean-American singer and actress
- Crystal Kay, Japanese singer and songwriter
- Crystal Kelly, American basketball player
- Crystal Kiang, Taiwanese-American figure skater
- Crystal Lane-Wright, British Paralympic cyclist
- Crystal Langhorne, American basketball player
- Crystal Lewis, American contemporary Christian/Gospel vocalist, songwriter and author
- Crystal Liu, known as Liu Yifei, Chinese-American actress, singer, and model
- Crystal Lowe, Canadian actress and model
- Crystal Lucas-Perry, American stage actress
- Crystal Mangum, African-American woman noted for false allegations of rape
- Crystal Poh, three-year-old victim of a 2002 murder case in Singapore
- Crystal Reed, American television and film actress
- Crystal Renn, American model
- Crystal Soubrier, née Dunn, American footballer
- Crystal Taliefero, American multi-instrumentalist and vocalist
- Crystal Waters, American dance music singer and songwriter
- Crystal Yi, known as Lee Soo-jung, Korean-American singer-songwriter
- Crystal Yu, Chinese television, film and stage actress
Fictional characters
- Crystalia 'Crystal' Amaquelin, an Inhuman from Marvel Comics
- Crystal Bailey, an antagonist in the videogame Dead Rising 2
- 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.
- Crystal the Snow Fairy, from the Rainbow Magic book franchise
- Crystal, character from ''Super Wings''