Meaning not yet researched.
Crue: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 314 in 2025. Its best rank was #629 in 2024.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #629 in 2024; #797 in 2025. About 98% of babies named Crue in 2025 were boys.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#797 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2024, at #629.
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Crue: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 314 boys in 2025. Peak: #629 in 2024 · most boys in one year: 446 (2024).
In 2025, 314 US boys were named Crue, making it the 797th most common boys’ name of the year, down 168 places from #629 in 2024. That is 132 fewer than the 446 boys named Crue in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #629, reached in 2024. That year also had the most boys given the name: 446. For comparison, it was #2,037 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Crue in 25 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1988 with 10 babies. In all, 2,633 US babies have been given the name, 2.2% of them girls and 98% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2020s, with 1,841 babies named Crue.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 2,101 US boys were named Crue; the busiest of those years was 2024, with 446. In 2025 that was about 1 in 5,440 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Crue ranked highest in Iowa in 2025, at #210 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Krue (1,629 babies since 1880), Cru (1,588 babies since 1880) and Kru (631 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Croy 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.
Rare spellings summarised here: Croy (100).
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 Crue 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 26 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Iowa | 19 | #210 | — |
| Kentucky | 11 | #431 | — |
| Indiana | 15 | #459 | — |
| Minnesota | 11 | #484 | — |
| Ohio | 20 | #518 | — |
| Missouri | 11 | #530 | — |
| Kansas | 6 | #538 | — |
| Oklahoma | 7 | #573 | — |
| Tennessee | 12 | #600 | — |
| Michigan | 13 | #606 | #1,110 |
| Louisiana | 7 | #606 | — |
| Alabama | 6 | #698 | — |
| Maryland | 6 | #726 | — |
| North Carolina | 11 | #789 | — |
| Wisconsin | 5 | #806 | — |
| Illinois | 10 | #817 | #1,358 |
| Texas | 32 | #831 | #2,460 |
| Pennsylvania | 9 | #866 | — |
| Colorado | 5 | #876 | — |
| Washington | 6 | #921 | — |
| Arizona | 5 | #946 | — |
| Georgia | 8 | #1,012 | — |
| Florida | 10 | #1,208 | — |
| New York | 7 | #1,448 | — |
| California | 10 | #1,613 | — |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 5 | #15,441 | 314 | #797 |
| 2024 | 11 | #9,066 | 446 | #629 |
| 2023 | 14 | #7,734 | 366 | #727 |
| 2022 | 11 | #9,190 | 277 | #868 |
| 2021 | 10 | #9,722 | 214 | #1,025 |
| 2020 | 8 | #11,321 | 165 | #1,167 |
| 2019 | — | — | 132 | #1,356 |
| 2018 | — | — | 74 | #1,981 |
| 2017 | — | — | 55 | #2,353 |
| 2016 | — | — | 58 | #2,283 |
| 2015 | — | — | 70 | #2,037 |
| 2014 | — | — | 63 | #2,160 |
| 2013 | — | — | 56 | #2,289 |
| 2012 | — | — | 62 | #2,158 |
| 2011 | — | — | 55 | #2,325 |
| 2010 | — | — | 41 | #2,881 |
| 2009 | — | — | 26 | #3,940 |
| 2008 | — | — | 26 | #3,951 |
| 2007 | — | — | 23 | #4,261 |
| 2006 | — | — | 11 | #7,001 |
| 2005 | — | — | 11 | #6,724 |
| 2002 | — | — | 6 | #9,604 |
| 1992 | — | — | 5 | #8,651 |
| 1989 | — | — | 8 | #5,739 |
| 1988 | — | — | 10 | #4,508 |
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).