Cross
#13,208 for girls in 2025, 6 births · #1,959 for boys in 2025, 78 births
Given to boys 99.6% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 1998 · 63 births
- Debut · boys
- 43 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 1,375since 1997
Cross over time
Rank among boys' names. Cross has never cracked the top 1,000 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #13,208 | 6 | #1,959 | 78 |
| 2024 | — | #2,444 | 56 | |
| 2023 | — | #2,221 | 64 | |
| 2022 | — | #2,299 | 62 | |
| 2021 | — | #1,964 | 76 | |
| 2020 | — | #2,212 | 62 | |
| 2019 | — | #2,582 | 50 | |
| 2018 | — | #3,446 | 32 | |
| 2017 | — | #3,249 | 35 | |
| 2016 | — | #3,776 | 28 | |
| 2015 | — | #3,085 | 37 | |
| 2014 | — | #2,705 | 44 | |
| 2013 | — | #2,668 | 44 | |
| 2012 | — | #4,003 | 25 | |
| 2011 | — | #3,792 | 27 | |
| 2010 | — | #3,181 | 35 | |
| 2009 | — | #2,451 | 52 | |
| 2008 | — | #2,946 | 40 | |
| 2007 | — | #2,721 | 44 | |
| 2006 | — | #3,227 | 33 | |
| 2005 | — | #2,365 | 49 | |
| 2004 | — | #2,316 | 49 | |
| 2003 | — | #2,153 | 51 | |
| 2002 | — | #2,195 | 48 | |
| 2001 | — | #1,816 | 61 | |
| 2000 | — | #2,256 | 43 | |
| 1999 | — | #2,140 | 44 | |
| 1998 | — | #1,642 | 63 | |
| 1997 | — | #2,060 | 43 | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Cross! It came in at #2,060, and was given to 43 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 2010–2012, when fewer than 36 boys a year got the name.
See more about Cross
- 485 spots since 2024 (#2,444 → #1,959)
- 253 spots since 2020 (#2,212 → #1,959)
- 1,126 spots since 2015 (#3,085 → #1,959)
- Debuted 1997
- Peaked 1998 at #1,642 (63 births)
- Births halved by 2011, 13 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 21,898 boys born in 2025 were named Cross (0.00%)
- Its best rank, #1,642 in 1998, was only 1 in 30,339 (0.00%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 34.2% of all boys named Cross (470) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1990s | 150 | #1,642 (1998) | #1,947 |
| 2000s | 470 | #1,816 (2001) | #2,445 |
| 2010s | 357 | #2,582 (2019) | #3,249 |
| 2020s | 398 | #1,959 (2025) | #2,183 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Cross in 2004
Top boys' names in 2004
More about 2004
boys
1,984,979 boys got a published name in 2004; 1 in 40,510 of them was named Cross, which outranked 82.5% of the 13,228 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 11.4% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #2,283Xaiver50
- #2,283Zak50
- #2,283Zakery50
- #2,316Cross49
- #2,316Ambrose49
- #2,316Boaz49
- #2,316Cristhian49
- #2,344Adil48
- #2,344Ahmir48
- #2,344Anwar48
Tied with 27 names at #2,316; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.