Meaning not yet researched.
Crimson: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 28 in 2025. Its best rank was #2,545 in 2016.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #2,545 in 2016; #4,793 in 2025. About 60% of babies named Crimson in 2025 were girls.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#4,793 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2016, at #2,545.
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Crimson: US girls and boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 28 girls in 2025. Peak: #2,545 in 2016 · most girls in one year: 70 (2016).
In 2025, 28 US girls were named Crimson, making it the 4,793rd most common girls’ name of the year, down 569 places from #4,224 in 2024. That is 6 fewer than the 34 girls named Crimson in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #2,545, reached in 2016. That year also had the most girls given the name: 70. For comparison, it was #2,818 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
In 2025, 19 US boys were named Crimson, making it the 5,076th most common boys’ name of the year, down 1,362 places from #3,714 in 2024. That is 11 fewer than the 30 boys named Crimson in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #2,734, reached in 2016. That year also had the most boys given the name: 44. For comparison, it was #3,093 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Crimson in 50 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1974 with 6 babies. In all, 1,836 US babies have been given the name, 70% of them girls and 30% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 850 babies named Crimson.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 456 US girls were named Crimson; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 70. In 2025 that was about 1 in 57,402 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Rarer spellings such as Krimson, Crimsyn and Krymson are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
No related spellings pass our data threshold.
Rare spellings summarised here: Krimson (267), Crimsyn (84), Krymson (59), Krimsyn (45).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Crimson in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 28 | #4,793 | 19 | #5,076 |
| 2024 | 34 | #4,224 | 30 | #3,714 |
| 2023 | 41 | #3,723 | 29 | #3,813 |
| 2022 | 49 | #3,284 | 29 | #3,791 |
| 2021 | 44 | #3,502 | 25 | #4,137 |
| 2020 | 33 | #4,189 | 30 | #3,590 |
| 2019 | 47 | #3,346 | 32 | #3,504 |
| 2018 | 57 | #2,917 | 30 | #3,618 |
| 2017 | 53 | #3,061 | 38 | #3,079 |
| 2016 | 70 | #2,545 | 44 | #2,734 |
| 2015 | 62 | #2,818 | 37 | #3,093 |
| 2014 | 52 | #3,147 | 39 | #2,943 |
| 2013 | 60 | #2,846 | 18 | #5,016 |
| 2012 | 59 | #2,911 | 32 | #3,387 |
| 2011 | 50 | #3,278 | 11 | #7,097 |
| 2010 | 37 | #4,043 | 22 | #4,389 |
| 2009 | 29 | #4,969 | 16 | #5,606 |
| 2008 | 32 | #4,678 | 13 | #6,465 |
| 2007 | 31 | #4,716 | 12 | #6,707 |
| 2006 | 31 | #4,604 | 12 | #6,540 |
| 2005 | 25 | #5,141 | 9 | #7,760 |
| 2004 | 13 | #8,368 | 9 | #7,658 |
| 2003 | 24 | #5,121 | — | — |
| 2002 | 26 | #4,664 | 5 | #10,992 |
| 2001 | 23 | #5,050 | 5 | #10,899 |
| 2000 | 24 | #4,825 | 5 | #10,681 |
| 1999 | 17 | #5,968 | — | — |
| 1998 | 20 | #5,182 | 7 | #7,714 |
| 1997 | 21 | #4,866 | — | — |
| 1996 | 17 | #5,586 | — | — |
| 1995 | 13 | #6,721 | — | — |
| 1994 | 13 | #6,763 | — | — |
| 1993 | 14 | #6,343 | — | — |
| 1992 | 13 | #6,724 | — | — |
| 1991 | 8 | #9,526 | — | — |
| 1990 | 12 | #6,964 | — | — |
| 1989 | 9 | #8,191 | — | — |
| 1988 | 8 | #8,557 | — | — |
| 1987 | 6 | #10,110 | — | — |
| 1986 | 5 | #11,309 | — | — |
| 1985 | 9 | #7,072 | — | — |
| 1984 | 7 | #8,351 | — | — |
| 1983 | 11 | #5,898 | — | — |
| 1982 | 7 | #8,407 | — | — |
| 1981 | 7 | #8,299 | — | — |
| 1980 | 5 | #10,722 | — | — |
| 1978 | 5 | #10,062 | — | — |
| 1976 | 6 | #8,366 | — | — |
| 1975 | 5 | #9,361 | — | — |
| 1974 | 6 | #7,884 | — | — |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).