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 2025
Top boys' names in 2025
More about 2025
boys
1,708,076 boys got a published name in 2025; 1 in 16,267 of them was named Cru, which outranked 88.4% of the 13,930 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.0% of boys (44.2% in 1880).
- #1,602Nakoa106
- #1,602Usman106
- #1,602Vyom106
- #1,609Cru105
- #1,609Ciaran105
- #1,609Cristobal105
- #1,609Destin105
- #1,621Ahaan104
- #1,621Antony104
- #1,621Benton104
Tied with 11 names at #1,609; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.