Meaning not yet researched.
Kruz: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 167 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,072 in 2020.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,072 in 2020; #1,216 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Kruz in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,216 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2020, at #1,072.
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Kruz: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 167 boys in 2025. Peak: #1,072 in 2020 · most boys in one year: 197 (2022).
In 2025, 167 US boys were named Kruz, making it the 1,216th most common boys’ name of the year, up 56 places from #1,272 in 2024. That is 12 more than the 155 boys named Kruz in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #1,072, reached in 2020. The most boys given the name in a single year was 197, in 2022. For comparison, it was #1,258 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Kruz in 37 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1987 with 5 babies. In all, 2,723 US babies have been given the name, 2.4% of them girls and 98% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 1,286 babies named Kruz.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 1,604 US boys were named Kruz; the busiest of those years was 2022, with 197. In 2025 that was about 1 in 10,228 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Kruz ranked highest in Hawaii in 2025, at #241 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Cruz (35,024 babies since 1880) and Cruze (866 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Kruse, Kruize and Kros 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: Kruse (76), Kruize (16), Kros (5), Krush (5).
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 Kruz 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 35 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hawaii | 5 | #241 | — |
| Arkansas | 6 | #526 | — |
| Oklahoma | 6 | #668 | #610 |
| South Carolina | 5 | #814 | — |
| Alabama | 5 | #823 | — |
| Louisiana | 5 | #853 | #767 |
| Maryland | 5 | #872 | — |
| Missouri | 5 | #943 | — |
| Arizona | 5 | #986 | — |
| California | 20 | #1,065 | #1,187 |
| Washington | 5 | #1,080 | — |
| Tennessee | 5 | #1,121 | — |
| Texas | 18 | #1,198 | #1,418 |
| Ohio | 5 | #1,387 | #814 |
| Georgia | 5 | #1,460 | — |
| New York | 5 | #1,919 | — |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 167 | #1,216 |
| 2024 | 5 | #16,580 | 155 | #1,272 |
| 2023 | — | — | 171 | #1,186 |
| 2022 | 7 | #12,975 | 197 | #1,096 |
| 2021 | 9 | #10,737 | 181 | #1,128 |
| 2020 | 9 | #10,735 | 187 | #1,072 |
| 2019 | — | — | 156 | #1,223 |
| 2018 | 7 | #13,204 | 153 | #1,219 |
| 2017 | — | — | 116 | #1,465 |
| 2016 | 5 | #17,669 | 121 | #1,440 |
| 2015 | — | — | 144 | #1,258 |
| 2014 | — | — | 149 | #1,228 |
| 2013 | 7 | #13,969 | 118 | #1,419 |
| 2012 | 5 | #18,325 | 101 | #1,567 |
| 2011 | 5 | #18,305 | 112 | #1,463 |
| 2010 | — | — | 87 | #1,747 |
| 2009 | 5 | #18,860 | 74 | #1,935 |
| 2008 | — | — | 56 | #2,336 |
| 2007 | — | — | 34 | #3,286 |
| 2006 | — | — | 34 | #3,193 |
| 2005 | — | — | 13 | #6,070 |
| 2004 | — | — | 13 | #6,003 |
| 2003 | — | — | 20 | #4,211 |
| 2002 | — | — | 11 | #6,340 |
| 2001 | — | — | 9 | #7,244 |
| 2000 | — | — | 5 | #11,413 |
| 1999 | — | — | 8 | #7,553 |
| 1998 | — | — | 5 | #10,571 |
| 1997 | — | — | 12 | #5,140 |
| 1996 | — | — | 7 | #7,611 |
| 1995 | — | — | 6 | #8,407 |
| 1993 | — | — | 6 | #8,216 |
| 1991 | — | — | 5 | #8,977 |
| 1990 | — | — | 5 | #8,891 |
| 1989 | — | — | 8 | #5,962 |
| 1988 | — | — | 8 | #5,488 |
| 1987 | — | — | 5 | #7,622 |
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).