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 2025
Top girls' names in 2025
Top boys' names in 2025
More about 2025
girls
1,607,267 girls got a published name in 2025; 1 in 267,878 of them was named Cross, which outranked 23.6% of the 17,297 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.0% of girls (24.6% in 1880).
- #11,932Zyaria7
- #11,932Zyleigh7
- #11,932Zyniah7
- #13,208Cross6
- #13,208Aadhirai6
- #13,208Aadhyasri6
- #13,208Aafia6
- #14,942Aadhini5
- #14,942Aadriti5
- #14,942Aaima5
Tied with 1,733 names at #13,208; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,708,076 boys got a published name in 2025; 1 in 21,898 of them was named Cross, which outranked 85.9% of the 13,930 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.0% of boys (44.2% in 1880).
- #1,942Shaun79
- #1,942Shulem79
- #1,942Whit79
- #1,959Cross78
- #1,959Boyd78
- #1,959Cyaire78
- #1,959Dan78
- #1,976Arrow77
- #1,976Cordell77
- #1,976Davon77
Tied with 16 names at #1,959; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.