Crue
#14,942 for girls in 2025, 5 births · #797 for boys in 2025, 314 births
Given to boys 97.8% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 2024 · 446 births
- Debut · boys
- 10 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 2,574since 1988
Crue over time
Rank among boys' names. Crue has never cracked the top 600 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 | ||
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| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #14,942 | 5 | #797 | 314 |
| 2024 | #8,946 | 11 | #629 | 446 |
| 2023 | #7,640 | 14 | #727 | 366 |
| 2022 | #9,056 | 11 | #867 | 277 |
| 2021 | #9,562 | 10 | #1,025 | 214 |
| 2020 | #11,090 | 8 | #1,166 | 165 |
| 2019 | — | #1,354 | 132 | |
| 2018 | — | #1,981 | 74 | |
| 2017 | — | #2,345 | 55 | |
| 2016 | — | #2,278 | 58 | |
| 2015 | — | #2,036 | 70 | |
| 2014 | — | #2,154 | 63 | |
| 2013 | — | #2,278 | 56 | |
| 2012 | — | #2,155 | 62 | |
| 2011 | — | #2,317 | 55 | |
| 2010 | — | #2,874 | 41 | |
| 2009 | — | #3,919 | 26 | |
| 2008 | — | #3,921 | 26 | |
| 2007 | — | #4,243 | 23 | |
| 2006 | — | #6,904 | 11 | |
| 2005 | — | #6,634 | 11 | |
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| 2002 | — | #9,392 | 6 | |
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| 1992 | — | #8,435 | 5 | |
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| 1989 | — | #5,615 | 8 | |
| 1988 | — | #4,450 | 10 | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Crue! It came in at #4,450, and was given to 10 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1990–2001, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
Where Crue is popular in 2025
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Iowa#206 · 1 in 728
- Kentucky#422 · 1 in 1,867
- Indiana#452 · 1 in 2,111
- Minnesota#477 · 1 in 2,227
- Ohio#513 · 1 in 2,627
Best ever in a state: #175 in South Dakota, 2022.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| Iowa | #206 | 19 | 1 in 728 |
| Kentucky | #422 | 11 | 1 in 1,867 |
| Indiana | #452 | 15 | 1 in 2,111 |
| Minnesota | #477 | 11 | 1 in 2,227 |
| Ohio | #513 | 20 | 1 in 2,627 |
| Missouri | #518 | 11 | 1 in 2,528 |
| Kansas | #524 | 6 | 1 in 2,341 |
| Oklahoma | #552 | 7 | 1 in 2,526 |
| Louisiana | #591 | 7 | 1 in 2,733 |
| Tennessee | #592 | 12 | 1 in 3,064 |
| Michigan | #601 | 13 | 1 in 3,092 |
| Alabama | #685 | 6 | 1 in 3,586 |
| Maryland | #702 | 6 | 1 in 3,816 |
| North Carolina | #775 | 11 | 1 in 4,679 |
| Wisconsin | #785 | 5 | 1 in 4,686 |
| Illinois | #805 | 10 | 1 in 4,955 |
| Texas | #828 | 32 | 1 in 5,470 |
| Pennsylvania | #846 | 9 | 1 in 5,807 |
| Colorado | #849 | 5 | 1 in 5,370 |
| Washington | #898 | 6 | 1 in 5,466 |
| Arizona | #927 | 5 | 1 in 6,545 |
| Georgia | #990 | 8 | 1 in 6,278 |
| Florida | #1,191 | 10 | 1 in 9,553 |
| New York | #1,410 | 7 | 1 in 12,060 |
| California | #1,582 | 10 | 1 in 17,547 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the boys born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
See more about Crue
- 168 spots since 2024 (#629 → #797)
- 369 spots since 2020 (#1,166 → #797)
- 1,239 spots since 2015 (#2,036 → #797)
- Biggest jump: 158 spots in 2022 (#1,025 → #867)
- Biggest drop: 168 spots in 2025 (#629 → #797)
- Debuted 1988
- Peaked 2024 at #629 (446 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 4 yrs · run 2022–2025
- Highest: 1 in 3,863 boys born in 2024 were named Crue (0.03%)
- Latest: 1 in 5,440 boys born in 2025 (0.02%)
- 69.2% of all boys named Crue (1,782) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1980s | 18 | #4,450 (1988) | #5,033 |
| 1990s | 5 | #8,435 (1992) | #8,435 |
| 2000s | 103 | #3,919 (2009) | #5,836 |
| 2010s | 666 | #1,354 (2019) | #2,177 |
| 2020s | 1,782 | #629 (2024) | #869 |
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.
Crue 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 321,453 of them was named Crue, which outranked 13.6% of the 17,297 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.0% of girls (24.6% in 1880).
Tied with 2,355 names at #14,942; 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 5,440 of them was named Crue, which outranked 94.3% of the 13,930 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.0% of boys (44.2% in 1880).