Meaning not yet researched.
Cruze: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 37 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,796 in 2013.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,796 in 2013; #3,194 in 2025. About 88% of babies named Cruze in 2025 were boys.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#3,194 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2013, at #1,796.
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Cruze: US boys and girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 37 boys in 2025. Peak: #1,796 in 2013 · most boys in one year: 80 (2013).
In 2025, 37 US boys were named Cruze, making it the 3,194th most common boys’ name of the year, down 136 places from #3,058 in 2024. That is 3 fewer than the 40 boys named Cruze in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #1,796, reached in 2013. That year also had the most boys given the name: 80. For comparison, it was #2,117 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
In 2025, 5 US girls were named Cruze, making it the 15,442nd most common girls’ name of the year. Its best rank for girls was #15,442, reached in this year, 2025. That year also had the most girls given the name: 5. For comparison, it was unranked (under five girls) in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Cruze in 24 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1989 with 5 babies. In all, 866 US babies have been given the name, 0.6% of them girls and 99% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 530 babies named Cruze.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 460 US boys were named Cruze; the busiest of those years was 2017, with 59. In 2025 that was about 1 in 46,164 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Cruz (35,024 babies since 1880) and Kruz (2,723 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Cruise 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: Cruise (412).
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 Cruze in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 5 | #15,442 | 37 | #3,194 |
| 2024 | — | — | 40 | #3,058 |
| 2023 | — | — | 57 | #2,396 |
| 2022 | — | — | 53 | #2,568 |
| 2021 | — | — | 27 | #3,934 |
| 2020 | — | — | 48 | #2,628 |
| 2019 | — | — | 53 | #2,494 |
| 2018 | — | — | 47 | #2,639 |
| 2017 | — | — | 59 | #2,246 |
| 2016 | — | — | 39 | #3,012 |
| 2015 | — | — | 66 | #2,117 |
| 2014 | — | — | 73 | #1,964 |
| 2013 | — | — | 80 | #1,796 |
| 2012 | — | — | 49 | #2,525 |
| 2011 | — | — | 42 | #2,805 |
| 2010 | — | — | 22 | #4,391 |
| 2009 | — | — | 17 | #5,371 |
| 2008 | — | — | 12 | #6,833 |
| 2007 | — | — | 9 | #8,311 |
| 2006 | — | — | 9 | #8,119 |
| 2005 | — | — | 5 | #11,786 |
| 1992 | — | — | 6 | #7,609 |
| 1990 | — | — | 6 | #7,356 |
| 1989 | — | — | 5 | #8,127 |
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).