Meaning not yet researched.
Kru: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 77 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,869 in 2024.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,869 in 2024; #1,986 in 2025. About 90% of babies named Kru in 2025 were boys.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,986 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2024, at #1,869.
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Kru: US boys and girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 77 boys in 2025. Peak: #1,869 in 2024 · most boys in one year: 86 (2024).
In 2025, 77 US boys were named Kru, making it the 1,986th most common boys’ name of the year, down 117 places from #1,869 in 2024. That is 9 fewer than the 86 boys named Kru in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #1,869, reached in 2024. That year also had the most boys given the name: 86. For comparison, it was #5,418 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
In 2025, 9 US girls were named Kru, making it the 10,532nd most common girls’ name of the year, up 2,321 places from #12,853 in 2024. That is 2 more than the 7 girls named Kru in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #10,532, reached in this year, 2025. That year also had the most girls given the name: 9. For comparison, it was unranked (under five girls) in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Kru in 18 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 2008 with 9 babies. In all, 631 US babies have been given the name, 5.7% of them girls and 94% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2020s, with 446 babies named Kru.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 495 US boys were named Kru; the busiest of those years was 2024, with 86. In 2025 that was about 1 in 22,183 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Kru ranked highest in Tennessee in 2025, at #1,120 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 Cru (1,588 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 Kru 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 46 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tennessee | 5 | #1,120 | — |
| Pennsylvania | 6 | #1,180 | — |
| Ohio | 6 | #1,187 | — |
| Georgia | 5 | #1,459 | — |
| Texas | 12 | #1,523 | — |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 9 | #10,532 | 77 | #1,986 |
| 2024 | 7 | #12,853 | 86 | #1,869 |
| 2023 | 7 | #12,851 | 75 | #2,022 |
| 2022 | 7 | #12,974 | 84 | #1,881 |
| 2021 | 6 | #14,449 | 54 | #2,480 |
| 2020 | — | — | 34 | #3,307 |
| 2019 | — | — | 42 | #2,919 |
| 2018 | — | — | 19 | #5,026 |
| 2017 | — | — | 12 | #6,930 |
| 2016 | — | — | 12 | #6,958 |
| 2015 | — | — | 17 | #5,418 |
| 2014 | — | — | 10 | #7,893 |
| 2013 | — | — | 11 | #7,338 |
| 2012 | — | — | 11 | #7,336 |
| 2011 | — | — | 13 | #6,441 |
| 2010 | — | — | 11 | #7,369 |
| 2009 | — | — | 18 | #5,220 |
| 2008 | — | — | 9 | #8,707 |
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).