Meaning not yet researched.
Kross: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 184 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,093 in 2021.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,093 in 2021; #1,150 in 2025. About 97% of babies named Kross in 2025 were boys.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,150 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2021, at #1,093.
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Kross: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 184 boys in 2025. Peak: #1,093 in 2021 · most boys in one year: 195 (2022).
In 2025, 184 US boys were named Kross, making it the 1,150th most common boys’ name of the year, up 165 places from #1,315 in 2024. That is 36 more than the 148 boys named Kross in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #1,093, reached in 2021. The most boys given the name in a single year was 195, in 2022. For comparison, it was #5,188 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Kross in 29 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1997 with 16 babies. In all, 1,604 US babies have been given the name, 2.9% of them girls and 97% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2020s, with 1,124 babies named Kross.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 1,267 US boys were named Kross; the busiest of those years was 2022, with 195. In 2025 that was about 1 in 9,283 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Kross ranked highest in Louisiana in 2025, at #385 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Cross (1,381 babies since 1880).
Meaning not yet researched.
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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 Kross 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 38 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Louisiana | 13 | #385 | — |
| Maryland | 13 | #400 | — |
| Arkansas | 5 | #603 | — |
| Michigan | 13 | #623 | — |
| Georgia | 14 | #693 | — |
| Oklahoma | 5 | #759 | — |
| North Carolina | 11 | #806 | — |
| Texas | 24 | #997 | #2,275 |
| Pennsylvania | 7 | #1,053 | — |
| Ohio | 7 | #1,079 | — |
| New Jersey | 5 | #1,120 | — |
| California | 14 | #1,340 | — |
| New York | 7 | #1,501 | — |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 5 | #16,215 | 184 | #1,150 |
| 2024 | 5 | #16,578 | 148 | #1,315 |
| 2023 | — | — | 184 | #1,140 |
| 2022 | 12 | #8,810 | 195 | #1,099 |
| 2021 | 8 | #11,692 | 192 | #1,093 |
| 2020 | 10 | #9,945 | 181 | #1,099 |
| 2019 | 7 | #13,172 | 123 | #1,427 |
| 2018 | — | — | 21 | #4,683 |
| 2017 | — | — | 13 | #6,526 |
| 2016 | — | — | 26 | #4,054 |
| 2015 | — | — | 18 | #5,188 |
| 2014 | — | — | 19 | #4,982 |
| 2013 | — | — | 23 | #4,260 |
| 2012 | — | — | 12 | #6,860 |
| 2011 | — | — | 13 | #6,440 |
| 2010 | — | — | 16 | #5,627 |
| 2009 | — | — | 16 | #5,716 |
| 2008 | — | — | 15 | #5,948 |
| 2007 | — | — | 14 | #6,128 |
| 2006 | — | — | 13 | #6,312 |
| 2005 | — | — | 11 | #6,903 |
| 2004 | — | — | 18 | #4,705 |
| 2003 | — | — | 10 | #7,026 |
| 2002 | — | — | 10 | #6,828 |
| 2001 | — | — | 16 | #4,804 |
| 2000 | — | — | 7 | #8,731 |
| 1999 | — | — | 20 | #3,777 |
| 1998 | — | — | 23 | #3,349 |
| 1997 | — | — | 16 | #4,164 |
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).