Given name & surname
Christell
Christell is used as a given name and a surname.
Meaning & origin
A reliable meaning for Christell isn’t established in our sources yet. Rather than guess, we show what is recorded: how the name is used, how often, and the names it’s connected to.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1911. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Christell through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 470
- 0 boys · 470 girls
- Most popular year
- 2004
- 28 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for girls is 5 in 2024. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for girls was 28 in 2004. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 344 as a first name in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Christell’s family of names
Christell may belong to the same name family as CHRISSTELL. This is a tentative spelling connection.
Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 1
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Across languages 1
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Christell
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
Similar names
If you love Christell, these share its style, era, origin or sound, from outside its own family.
Itzel
“my God is bountiful”
>99% girls
Isabel
“my God is bountiful” · “a giving woran”
>99% girls
Isabela
“my God is bountiful”
>99% girls
Paris
“woman of the city in France”
8% boys · 92% girls
Ashlyn
“ash” · “wood”
>99% girls
Kyra
“little dark-haired one” · “a king”
>99% girls
Yasmin
“resembling the jasmine flower”
>99% girls
Abby
“father of exaltation” · “the source of a father”
>99% girls