Meaning & Origin
A female given name from English.
Crystal is a girl's and boy's baby name of Greek origin, from the Greek krystallos meaning "ice" or "clear mineral," itself from kryos ("icy cold"). As a given name it emerged in the 20th century, riding the wave of nature-and-gemstone names popularized in the 1960s and 1970s.
Crystal broke into the U.S. top 20 girls' names in the early 1980s and stayed there for much of the decade. It shares the stage with Tiffany, Amber, and Heather as a quintessentially 1980s American name — bright, sparkling, and specific enough to evoke its era.