Meaning not yet researched.
Cru: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 105 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,331 in 2022.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,331 in 2022; #1,611 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Cru in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,611 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2022, at #1,331.
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Cru: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 105 boys in 2025. Peak: #1,331 in 2022 · most boys in one year: 141 (2022).
In 2025, 105 US boys were named Cru, making it the 1,611th most common boys’ name of the year, down 201 places from #1,410 in 2024. That is 27 fewer than the 132 boys named Cru in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #1,331, reached in 2022. That year also had the most boys given the name: 141. For comparison, it was #2,136 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Cru in 25 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1990 with 6 babies. In all, 1,588 US babies have been given the name, 2.2% of them girls and 98% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2020s, with 774 babies named Cru.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 1,088 US boys were named Cru; the busiest of those years was 2022, with 141. In 2025 that was about 1 in 16,267 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Cru ranked highest in Arizona in 2025, at #945 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Crue (2,633 babies since 1880), Krue (1,629 babies since 1880) and Kru (631 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 Cru 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Arizona | 5 | #945 | — |
| Tennessee | 5 | #1,064 | — |
| Florida | 9 | #1,279 | — |
| Texas | 7 | #2,127 | #1,793 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 105 | #1,611 |
| 2024 | 9 | #10,465 | 132 | #1,410 |
| 2023 | 9 | #10,507 | 110 | #1,579 |
| 2022 | — | — | 141 | #1,331 |
| 2021 | 7 | #12,499 | 135 | #1,366 |
| 2020 | 5 | #15,655 | 121 | #1,425 |
| 2019 | 5 | #16,085 | 112 | #1,518 |
| 2018 | — | — | 90 | #1,725 |
| 2017 | — | — | 64 | #2,137 |
| 2016 | — | — | 78 | #1,890 |
| 2015 | — | — | 65 | #2,136 |
| 2014 | — | — | 63 | #2,159 |
| 2013 | — | — | 55 | #2,308 |
| 2012 | — | — | 48 | #2,562 |
| 2011 | — | — | 58 | #2,238 |
| 2010 | — | — | 38 | #3,030 |
| 2009 | — | — | 37 | #3,116 |
| 2008 | — | — | 33 | #3,357 |
| 2007 | — | — | 15 | #5,698 |
| 2006 | — | — | 17 | #5,116 |
| 2005 | — | — | 12 | #6,301 |
| 2004 | — | — | 7 | #9,138 |
| 2002 | — | — | 6 | #9,603 |
| 2000 | — | — | 5 | #10,682 |
| 1990 | — | — | 6 | #7,355 |
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).