Meaning not yet researched.
Cross: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 78 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,646 in 1998.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,646 in 1998; #1,960 in 2025. About 93% of babies named Cross in 2025 were boys.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,960 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1998, at #1,646.
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Cross: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 78 boys in 2025. Peak: #1,646 in 1998 · most boys in one year: 78 (2025).
In 2025, 78 US boys were named Cross, making it the 1,960th most common boys’ name of the year, up 488 places from #2,448 in 2024. That is 22 more than the 56 boys named Cross in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #1,646, reached in 1998. The most boys given the name in a single year was 78, in 2025. For comparison, it was #3,094 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Cross in 29 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1997 with 43 babies. In all, 1,381 US babies have been given the name, 0.4% of them girls and 99.5% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 470 babies named Cross.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 543 US boys were named Cross; the busiest of those years was 2025, with 78. In 2025 that was about 1 in 21,898 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Cross ranked highest in Arkansas in 2025, at #502 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Kross (1,604 babies since 1880).
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.
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 Cross 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 47 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Arkansas | 6 | #502 | — |
| Maryland | 5 | #828 | — |
| Georgia | 6 | #1,241 | — |
| Texas | 12 | #1,501 | #1,792 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 6 | #13,589 | 78 | #1,960 |
| 2024 | — | — | 56 | #2,448 |
| 2023 | — | — | 64 | #2,228 |
| 2022 | — | — | 62 | #2,303 |
| 2021 | — | — | 76 | #1,966 |
| 2020 | — | — | 62 | #2,215 |
| 2019 | — | — | 50 | #2,594 |
| 2018 | — | — | 32 | #3,462 |
| 2017 | — | — | 35 | #3,257 |
| 2016 | — | — | 28 | #3,795 |
| 2015 | — | — | 37 | #3,094 |
| 2014 | — | — | 44 | #2,716 |
| 2013 | — | — | 44 | #2,676 |
| 2012 | — | — | 25 | #4,032 |
| 2011 | — | — | 27 | #3,814 |
| 2010 | — | — | 35 | #3,189 |
| 2009 | — | — | 52 | #2,460 |
| 2008 | — | — | 40 | #2,960 |
| 2007 | — | — | 44 | #2,727 |
| 2006 | — | — | 33 | #3,235 |
| 2005 | — | — | 49 | #2,373 |
| 2004 | — | — | 49 | #2,319 |
| 2003 | — | — | 51 | #2,158 |
| 2002 | — | — | 48 | #2,201 |
| 2001 | — | — | 61 | #1,820 |
| 2000 | — | — | 43 | #2,259 |
| 1999 | — | — | 44 | #2,141 |
| 1998 | — | — | 63 | #1,646 |
| 1997 | — | — | 43 | #2,067 |
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).