Cru
Last seen for girls in 2024 at #10,271 · #1,609 for boys in 2025, 105 births
Given to boys 97.8% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 2022 · 141 births
- Debut · boys
- 6 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 1,553since 1990
Cru over time
Rank among boys' names. Cru 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 | — | #1,609 | 105 | |
| 2024 | #10,271 | 9 | #1,410 | 132 |
| 2023 | #10,312 | 9 | #1,576 | 110 |
| 2022 | — | #1,330 | 141 | |
| 2021 | #12,206 | 7 | #1,365 | 135 |
| 2020 | #15,088 | 5 | #1,423 | 121 |
| 2019 | #15,539 | 5 | #1,515 | 112 |
| 2018 | — | #1,724 | 90 | |
| 2017 | — | #2,130 | 64 | |
| 2016 | — | #1,890 | 78 | |
| 2015 | — | #2,132 | 65 | |
| 2014 | — | #2,154 | 63 | |
| 2013 | — | #2,299 | 55 | |
| 2012 | — | #2,551 | 48 | |
| 2011 | — | #2,232 | 58 | |
| 2010 | — | #3,014 | 38 | |
| 2009 | — | #3,105 | 37 | |
| 2008 | — | #3,344 | 33 | |
| 2007 | — | #5,661 | 15 | |
| 2006 | — | #5,072 | 17 | |
| 2005 | — | #6,226 | 12 | |
| 2004 | — | #8,927 | 7 | |
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| 2002 | — | #9,392 | 6 | |
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| 2000 | — | #10,349 | 5 | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Cru! It came in at #7,178, and was given to 6 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1991–2001, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
See more about Cru
- 199 spots since 2024 (#1,410 → #1,609)
- 186 spots since 2020 (#1,423 → #1,609)
- 523 spots since 2015 (#2,132 → #1,609)
- Debuted 1990
- Peaked 2022 at #1,330 (141 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 12,383 boys born in 2022 were named Cru (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 16,267 boys born in 2025 (0.01%)
- 47.9% of all boys named Cru (744) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1990s | 6 | #7,178 (1990) | #7,178 |
| 2000s | 132 | #3,105 (2009) | #6,510 |
| 2010s | 671 | #1,515 (2019) | #2,164 |
| 2020s | 744 | #1,330 (2022) | #1,452 |
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.
Cru in 2023
Top girls' names in 2023
Top boys' names in 2023
More about 2023
girls
1,604,582 girls got a published name in 2023; 1 in 178,287 of them was named Cru, which outranked 41.5% of the 17,615 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.2% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #9,616Zuhal10
- #9,616Zuleymi10
- #9,616Zuzanna10
- #10,312Cru9
- #10,312Aadvika9
- #10,312Aakifah9
- #10,312Aava9
- #11,169Aaditri8
- #11,169Aadriti8
- #11,169Aaila8
Tied with 856 names at #10,312; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,710,576 boys got a published name in 2023; 1 in 15,551 of them was named Cru, which outranked 88.9% of the 14,215 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.8% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #1,567Reynaldo111
- #1,567Slater111
- #1,567Xavion111
- #1,576Cru110
- #1,576Alexzander110
- #1,576Ammar110
- #1,576Avrohom110
- #1,591Aariz109
- #1,591Coast109
- #1,591Finnian109
Tied with 14 names at #1,576; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.