Crew

Where Crew comes from

From Crewe in Cheshire, Old Welsh criu (“weir”).
— Wiktionary's entry for Crew
Along the way
  1. 1995
    First appearance
    #7,792 among boys, 6 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 2024
    Peak, #250
    1,415 babies named Crew — more than any year before or since.
In the dictionary
  • A male given name transferred from the surname.
Namesakes

No widely known Crew turns up in the encyclopedias yet — the name is still all theirs to make famous.

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.