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Bristal

Gender
Girl
Say it
BRIS-tul
Origin
Modern

Bristal is a girls' name of Modern origin. Too few babies were given it in the latest year to rank.

Where does Bristal come from?

Modern: modern coinage, perhaps influenced by Crystal or Bristol

Is Bristal a girl's or a boy's name?

Bristal is a girls' name.

How popular is Bristal in the US?

No girls in the US were given it in 2025, or too few to be listed. Its busiest year was 2011, with 35 girls. It first appears in the records in 1994.

Half of all the girls named Bristal in the US since 1880 were born between 2011 and 2016, the years shaded on the chart below.

1994Busiest: 35 in 20112023
Bristal in the US, year by year
YearGirlsRank
20239#10,307
20227#12,237
20217#12,201
202013#7,964
201911#9,106
20186#13,788
201710#9,939
201619#6,398
201525#5,286
201421#5,991
201326#5,141
201231#4,599
201135#4,150
201024#5,600
200931#4,676
20080–
20075#17,630
20060–
20050–
20040–
20030–
20020–
20010–
20000–
19990–
19980–
19970–
19960–
19950–
19946#11,771

Names like Bristal

Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.

Names related to Bristal

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Sources

Figures from Popular Baby Names (US Social Security Administration). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.

To cite this page: Nameling, “Bristal: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/bristal, updated 20 October 2026.