Kross
#14,942 for girls in 2025, 5 births · #1,145 for boys in 2025, 184 births
Given to boys 97.1% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 2021 · 192 births
- Debut · boys
- 16 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 1,557since 1997
Kross over time
Rank among boys' names. Kross 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 | ||
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| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #14,942 | 5 | #1,145 | 184 |
| 2024 | #15,293 | 5 | #1,314 | 148 |
| 2023 | — | #1,140 | 184 | |
| 2022 | #8,542 | 12 | #1,099 | 195 |
| 2021 | #11,146 | 8 | #1,092 | 192 |
| 2020 | #9,546 | 10 | #1,095 | 181 |
| 2019 | #12,448 | 7 | #1,420 | 123 |
| 2018 | — | #4,610 | 21 | |
| 2017 | — | #6,338 | 13 | |
| 2016 | — | #3,990 | 26 | |
| 2015 | — | #5,058 | 18 | |
| 2014 | — | #4,866 | 19 | |
| 2013 | — | #4,180 | 23 | |
| 2012 | — | #6,626 | 12 | |
| 2011 | — | #6,256 | 13 | |
| 2010 | — | #5,478 | 16 | |
| 2009 | — | #5,554 | 16 | |
| 2008 | — | #5,767 | 15 | |
| 2007 | — | #5,901 | 14 | |
| 2006 | — | #6,094 | 13 | |
| 2005 | — | #6,634 | 11 | |
| 2004 | — | #4,602 | 18 | |
| 2003 | — | #6,715 | 10 | |
| 2002 | — | #6,522 | 10 | |
| 2001 | — | #4,676 | 16 | |
| 2000 | — | #8,209 | 7 | |
| 1999 | — | #3,704 | 20 | |
| 1998 | — | #3,296 | 23 | |
| 1997 | — | #4,059 | 16 | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Kross! It came in at #4,059, and was given to 16 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 2000, when fewer than 8 boys a year got the name.
Where Kross is popular in 2020
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- District of Columbia#213 · 1 in 699
- Louisiana#523 · 1 in 2,396
- Alabama#542 · 1 in 2,721
- Georgia#673 · 1 in 3,867
- Maryland#708 · 1 in 4,177
Best ever in a state: #213 in District of Columbia, 2020.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| District of Columbia | #213 | 5 | 1 in 699 |
| Louisiana | #523 | 9 | 1 in 2,396 |
| Alabama | #542 | 8 | 1 in 2,721 |
| Georgia | #673 | 13 | 1 in 3,867 |
| Maryland | #708 | 6 | 1 in 4,177 |
| Pennsylvania | #807 | 9 | 1 in 5,999 |
| Illinois | #875 | 9 | 1 in 6,072 |
| Virginia | #911 | 6 | 1 in 6,444 |
| Texas | #934 | 23 | 1 in 7,359 |
| Michigan | #983 | 6 | 1 in 7,119 |
| North Carolina | #1,056 | 6 | 1 in 8,157 |
| California | #1,116 | 17 | 1 in 11,154 |
| Ohio | #1,237 | 5 | 1 in 10,898 |
| Florida | #1,257 | 8 | 1 in 11,276 |
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See more about Kross
- 169 spots since 2024 (#1,314 → #1,145)
- 50 spots since 2020 (#1,095 → #1,145)
- 3,913 spots since 2015 (#5,058 → #1,145)
- Debuted 1997
- Peaked 2021 at #1,092 (192 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 8,954 boys born in 2022 were named Kross (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 9,283 boys born in 2025 (0.01%)
- Its best rank, #1,092 in 2021, was only 1 in 9,112 (0.01%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 69.6% of all boys named Kross (1,084) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1990s | 59 | #3,296 (1998) | #3,686 |
| 2000s | 130 | #4,602 (2004) | #6,067 |
| 2010s | 284 | #1,420 (2019) | #4,882 |
| 2020s | 1,084 | #1,092 (2021) | #1,148 |
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.
Kross in 2020
Top girls' names in 2020
Top boys' names in 2020
More about 2020
girls
1,616,549 girls got a published name in 2020; 1 in 161,655 of them was named Kross, which outranked 45.5% of the 17,527 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.9% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #8,953Zohemy11
- #8,953Zorie11
- #8,953Zuzu11
- #9,546Kross10
- #9,546Aashna10
- #9,546Abree10
- #9,546Abria10
- #10,250Aadriti9
- #10,250Aaima9
- #10,250Aalivia9
Tied with 703 names at #9,546; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,726,076 boys got a published name in 2020; 1 in 9,536 of them was named Kross, which outranked 92.2% of the 14,060 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.9% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #1,086Marc182
- #1,086Mariano182
- #1,086Montgomery182
- #1,095Kross181
- #1,095Brentley181
- #1,095Dwayne181
- #1,095Jermaine181
- #1,101Neo180
- #1,101Ralph180
- #1,101Simeon180
Tied with 5 names at #1,095; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
- ↓ 380Vivaan#875 → #1,255
- ↓ 282Alexzander#890 → #1,172
- ↓ 268Reyansh#806 → #1,074
- ↓ 266Javion#949 → #1,215
- ↓ 224Kenny#862 → #1,086
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.