Meaning not yet researched.
Croix: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 59 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,766 in 2019.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,766 in 2019; #2,334 in 2025. About 91% of babies named Croix in 2025 were boys.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#2,334 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2019, at #1,766.
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Croix: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 59 boys in 2025. Peak: #1,766 in 2019 · most boys in one year: 88 (2019).
In 2025, 59 US boys were named Croix, making it the 2,334th most common boys’ name of the year, up 235 places from #2,569 in 2024. That is 7 more than the 52 boys named Croix in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #1,766, reached in 2019. That year also had the most boys given the name: 88. For comparison, it was #2,070 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Croix in 35 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1987 with 7 babies. In all, 1,201 US babies have been given the name, 1.8% of them girls and 98% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 565 babies named Croix.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 629 US boys were named Croix; the busiest of those years was 2019, with 88. In 2025 that was about 1 in 28,950 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Croix ranked highest in North Dakota in 2025, at #232 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Rarer spellings such as Kroix and Crux are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
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No related spellings pass our data threshold.
Rare spellings summarised here: Kroix (85), Crux (5).
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 Croix in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US boys. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five boys got the name, so 48 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| North Dakota | 5 | #232 | — |
| Wisconsin | 18 | #306 | #618 |
| Minnesota | 7 | #663 | #548 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 6 | #13,588 | 59 | #2,334 |
| 2024 | 5 | #15,805 | 52 | #2,569 |
| 2023 | — | — | 55 | #2,449 |
| 2022 | 5 | #15,845 | 52 | #2,595 |
| 2021 | — | — | 63 | #2,232 |
| 2020 | — | — | 66 | #2,119 |
| 2019 | — | — | 88 | #1,766 |
| 2018 | — | — | 70 | #2,052 |
| 2017 | 6 | #14,540 | 57 | #2,297 |
| 2016 | — | — | 67 | #2,096 |
| 2015 | — | — | 68 | #2,070 |
| 2014 | — | — | 54 | #2,378 |
| 2013 | — | — | 60 | #2,184 |
| 2012 | — | — | 49 | #2,524 |
| 2011 | — | — | 18 | #5,020 |
| 2010 | — | — | 28 | #3,732 |
| 2009 | — | — | 28 | #3,741 |
| 2008 | — | — | 20 | #4,751 |
| 2007 | — | — | 17 | #5,246 |
| 2006 | — | — | 27 | #3,697 |
| 2005 | — | — | 18 | #4,669 |
| 2004 | — | — | 27 | #3,470 |
| 2003 | — | — | 17 | #4,642 |
| 2002 | — | — | 17 | #4,539 |
| 2001 | — | — | 16 | #4,717 |
| 2000 | — | — | 13 | #5,343 |
| 1999 | — | — | 10 | #6,129 |
| 1998 | — | — | 12 | #5,203 |
| 1997 | — | — | 8 | #6,732 |
| 1996 | — | — | 8 | #6,619 |
| 1995 | — | — | 6 | #7,986 |
| 1992 | — | — | 9 | #5,736 |
| 1990 | — | — | 5 | #8,369 |
| 1989 | — | — | 8 | #5,738 |
| 1987 | — | — | 7 | #5,607 |
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).