In 2025, 70 US boys were named Crawford, making it the 2,097th most common boys’ name of the year, up 471 places from #2,568 in 2024. That is 18 more than the 52 boys named Crawford in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #443, reached in 1896. The most boys given the name in a single year was 88, in 1924. For comparison, it was #2,172 in 2015 and #927 in 1950.
In 2025, 8 US girls were named Crawford, making it the 11,158th most common girls’ name of the year, up 1,293 places from #12,451 in 2024. That is 1 more than the 7 girls named Crawford in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #11,158, reached in this year, 2025. That year also had the most girls given the name: 8. For comparison, it was #14,923 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Crawford in 145 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1880 with 8 babies. In all, 4,766 US babies have been given the name, 1.2% of them girls and 99% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1920s, with 643 babies named Crawford.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 597 US boys were named Crawford; the busiest of those years was 2025, with 70. In 2025 that was about 1 in 24,401 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Crawford ranked highest in Alabama in 2025, at #584 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state.