Meaning not yet researched.
Krue: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 251 in 2025. Its best rank was #935 in 2024.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #935 in 2024; #937 in 2025. About 92% of babies named Krue in 2025 were boys.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#937 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2024, at #935.
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Krue: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 251 boys in 2025. Peak: #935 in 2024 · most boys in one year: 251 (2025).
In 2025, 251 US boys were named Krue, making it the 937th most common boys’ name of the year, down 2 places from #935 in 2024. That is 4 more than the 247 boys named Krue in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #935, reached in 2024. The most boys given the name in a single year was 251, in 2025. For comparison, it was #2,744 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Krue in 20 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 2006 with 5 babies. In all, 1,629 US babies have been given the name, 5.5% of them girls and 95% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2020s, with 1,215 babies named Krue.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 1,327 US boys were named Krue; the busiest of those years was 2025, with 251. In 2025 that was about 1 in 6,805 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Krue ranked highest in West Virginia in 2025, at #281 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), Cru (1,588 babies since 1880) and Kru (631 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Kroy and Kroi 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: Kroy (406), Kroi (104).
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 Krue 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 28 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| West Virginia | 7 | #281 | — |
| Idaho | 6 | #406 | — |
| Iowa | 7 | #472 | — |
| Missouri | 13 | #480 | — |
| South Carolina | 10 | #488 | — |
| Oklahoma | 8 | #531 | — |
| Tennessee | 14 | #540 | — |
| Indiana | 12 | #568 | — |
| Mississippi | 5 | #580 | — |
| Ohio | 16 | #609 | — |
| Louisiana | 7 | #635 | — |
| Alabama | 7 | #657 | — |
| Kentucky | 6 | #674 | — |
| Utah | 5 | #759 | — |
| Virginia | 9 | #768 | — |
| Pennsylvania | 11 | #773 | — |
| Michigan | 9 | #805 | — |
| Georgia | 10 | #891 | — |
| North Carolina | 8 | #983 | — |
| Illinois | 7 | #1,095 | — |
| Texas | 16 | #1,275 | — |
| Florida | 6 | #1,750 | — |
| California | 8 | #1,924 | — |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 23 | #5,489 | 251 | #937 |
| 2024 | 28 | #4,838 | 247 | #935 |
| 2023 | 18 | #6,555 | 203 | #1,069 |
| 2022 | 9 | #10,839 | 175 | #1,169 |
| 2021 | — | — | 147 | #1,293 |
| 2020 | 6 | #14,353 | 108 | #1,537 |
| 2019 | 5 | #16,891 | 74 | #1,989 |
| 2018 | — | — | 49 | #2,597 |
| 2017 | — | — | 30 | #3,633 |
| 2016 | — | — | 43 | #2,816 |
| 2015 | — | — | 44 | #2,744 |
| 2014 | — | — | 28 | #3,742 |
| 2013 | — | — | 29 | #3,625 |
| 2012 | — | — | 28 | #3,760 |
| 2011 | — | — | 35 | #3,214 |
| 2010 | — | — | 14 | #6,234 |
| 2009 | — | — | 15 | #5,974 |
| 2008 | — | — | 8 | #9,497 |
| 2007 | — | — | 7 | #10,415 |
| 2006 | — | — | 5 | #13,167 |
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).