Meaning not yet researched.
Crosby: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 162 in 2025. Its best rank was #578 in 2015.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #578 in 2015; #1,235 in 2025. About 83% of babies named Crosby in 2025 were boys.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,235 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2015, at #578.
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Crosby: US boys and girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 162 boys in 2025. Peak: #578 in 2015 · most boys in one year: 484 (2015).
In 2025, 162 US boys were named Crosby, making it the 1,235th most common boys’ name of the year, down 37 places from #1,198 in 2024. That is 9 fewer than the 171 boys named Crosby in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #578, reached in 2015. That year also had the most boys given the name: 484. For comparison, it was #578 in 2015 and #3,397 in 1950.
In 2025, 34 US girls were named Crosby, making it the 4,195th most common girls’ name of the year, down 422 places from #3,773 in 2024. That is 6 fewer than the 40 girls named Crosby in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #3,563, reached in 2021. That year also had the most girls given the name: 43. For comparison, it was #6,519 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Crosby in 102 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1912 with 5 babies. In all, 6,490 US babies have been given the name, 9.4% of them girls and 91% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 3,865 babies named Crosby.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 2,776 US boys were named Crosby; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 428. In 2025 that was about 1 in 10,544 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Crosby ranked highest in Minnesota in 2025, at #428 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Rarer spellings such as Krosby and Crosbie are summarised on this page.
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No related spellings pass our data threshold.
Rare spellings summarised here: Krosby (187), Crosbie (16).
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 Crosby 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 37 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Minnesota | 13 | #428 | #171 |
| Iowa | 7 | #458 | #338 |
| Colorado | 6 | #782 | #290 |
| Wisconsin | 5 | #805 | #334 |
| Tennessee | 7 | #862 | #686 |
| Arizona | 6 | #863 | #915 |
| Missouri | 5 | #895 | #377 |
| Michigan | 6 | #1,015 | #561 |
| Virginia | 5 | #1,124 | #632 |
| North Carolina | 6 | #1,175 | #568 |
| California | 16 | #1,210 | #765 |
| Texas | 15 | #1,308 | #821 |
| Ohio | 5 | #1,308 | #378 |
| New York | 7 | #1,447 | #675 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 34 | #4,195 | 162 | #1,235 |
| 2024 | 40 | #3,773 | 171 | #1,198 |
| 2023 | 33 | #4,297 | 206 | #1,054 |
| 2022 | 26 | #5,056 | 218 | #1,021 |
| 2021 | 43 | #3,563 | 240 | #943 |
| 2020 | 37 | #3,852 | 289 | #802 |
| 2019 | 30 | #4,571 | 299 | #780 |
| 2018 | 19 | #6,311 | 345 | #702 |
| 2017 | 28 | #4,836 | 418 | #625 |
| 2016 | 29 | #4,762 | 428 | #625 |
| 2015 | 19 | #6,519 | 484 | #578 |
| 2014 | 28 | #4,923 | 435 | #615 |
| 2013 | 24 | #5,527 | 378 | #647 |
| 2012 | 22 | #5,950 | 352 | #672 |
| 2011 | 25 | #5,405 | 306 | #741 |
| 2010 | 16 | #7,613 | 180 | #1,071 |
| 2009 | 13 | #9,015 | 73 | #1,944 |
| 2008 | 10 | #10,989 | 55 | #2,352 |
| 2007 | 7 | #14,255 | 21 | #4,528 |
| 2006 | 7 | #13,922 | 19 | #4,713 |
| 2005 | — | — | 11 | #6,723 |
| 2004 | 9 | #10,891 | 14 | #5,550 |
| 2003 | 7 | #12,708 | 17 | #4,643 |
| 2002 | 9 | #10,418 | 18 | #4,351 |
| 2001 | 5 | #15,888 | 12 | #5,740 |
| 2000 | 5 | #15,578 | 12 | #5,635 |
| 1999 | 9 | #9,669 | 18 | #4,011 |
| 1998 | 12 | #7,648 | 7 | #7,717 |
| 1997 | 7 | #11,111 | 12 | #5,012 |
| 1996 | 16 | #5,838 | 10 | #5,611 |
| 1995 | 6 | #12,105 | 16 | #3,894 |
| 1994 | — | — | 16 | #3,944 |
| 1993 | 8 | #9,760 | 17 | #3,687 |
| 1992 | 7 | #10,735 | 14 | #4,144 |
| 1991 | 12 | #7,059 | 23 | #2,845 |
| 1990 | — | — | 15 | #3,812 |
| 1989 | — | — | 13 | #4,068 |
| 1988 | 5 | #12,213 | 22 | #2,628 |
| 1987 | — | — | 14 | #3,372 |
| 1986 | — | — | 6 | #6,087 |
| 1985 | — | — | 21 | #2,440 |
| 1984 | 5 | #10,752 | 11 | #3,750 |
| 1983 | — | — | 13 | #3,270 |
| 1982 | — | — | 6 | #5,784 |
| 1980 | — | — | 8 | #4,578 |
| 1979 | — | — | 10 | #3,860 |
| 1978 | — | — | 7 | #4,643 |
| 1977 | — | — | 6 | #5,253 |
| 1976 | — | — | 6 | #5,046 |
| 1975 | — | — | 6 | #4,920 |
| 1974 | — | — | 7 | #4,269 |
| 1971 | — | — | 7 | #4,051 |
| 1969 | — | — | 9 | #3,112 |
| 1967 | — | — | 5 | #4,071 |
| 1966 | — | — | 5 | #4,058 |
| 1965 | — | — | 7 | #3,300 |
| 1964 | — | — | 7 | #3,345 |
| 1963 | — | — | 7 | #3,373 |
| 1962 | — | — | 5 | #4,167 |
| 1961 | — | — | 6 | #3,722 |
| 1960 | — | — | 6 | #3,740 |
| 1957 | — | — | 11 | #2,516 |
| 1956 | — | — | 7 | #3,274 |
| 1955 | — | — | 5 | #3,980 |
| 1954 | — | — | 7 | #3,220 |
| 1953 | — | — | 8 | #2,958 |
| 1952 | — | — | 10 | #2,558 |
| 1951 | — | — | 17 | #1,851 |
| 1950 | — | — | 6 | #3,397 |
| 1949 | — | — | 13 | #2,142 |
| 1948 | — | — | 6 | #3,383 |
| 1947 | — | — | 7 | #3,140 |
| 1946 | — | — | 12 | #2,175 |
| 1945 | — | — | 7 | #2,797 |
| 1944 | — | — | 6 | #3,178 |
| 1943 | — | — | 13 | #2,094 |
| 1942 | — | — | 13 | #2,064 |
| 1941 | — | — | 6 | #3,216 |
| 1939 | — | — | 12 | #2,085 |
| 1938 | — | — | 7 | #2,921 |
| 1937 | — | — | 8 | #2,725 |
| 1936 | — | — | 8 | #2,683 |
| 1935 | — | — | 11 | #2,279 |
| 1934 | — | — | 7 | #3,032 |
| 1933 | — | — | 5 | #3,754 |
| 1931 | — | — | 7 | #3,157 |
| 1930 | — | — | 8 | #3,078 |
| 1929 | — | — | 6 | #3,636 |
| 1928 | — | — | 6 | #3,803 |
| 1927 | — | — | 9 | #2,956 |
| 1925 | — | — | 11 | #2,626 |
| 1923 | — | — | 7 | #3,538 |
| 1922 | — | — | 11 | #2,664 |
| 1921 | — | — | 5 | #4,487 |
| 1920 | — | — | 10 | #2,809 |
| 1919 | — | — | 5 | #4,292 |
| 1918 | — | — | 10 | #2,731 |
| 1917 | — | — | 9 | #2,780 |
| 1916 | — | — | 7 | #3,243 |
| 1915 | — | — | 10 | #2,485 |
| 1914 | — | — | 9 | #2,312 |
| 1912 | — | — | 5 | #2,630 |
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).