Crew
Crew was given to 1,352 boys in 2025, #256 among boys’ names; 12,580 Americans have been recorded with it since 1995 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 12,500 Americans named Crew and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 5 years old and half are between 3 and 8.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Crew by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Crew mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Crew is “a male given name transferred from the surname.” Its etymology gives the sense “weir” (criu).
From Crewe in Cheshire, Old Welsh criu (“weir”).
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Crew?
#256 among boys’ names, 2025
Crew rose from #717 in 2015 to #256 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 0.18 to 0.79 per 1,000.
1,420 babies in 2024, the peak
Crew peaked in 2024, when 1,420 babies were given it (1,415 boys, #250 among boys’ names). The 1,362 births of 2025 (girls and boys) are 96% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 1,352 | #256 | 0.79 |
| 2024 | 1,415 | #250 | 0.82 |
| 2023 | 1,325 | #261 | 0.77 |
| 2022 | 1,357 | #254 | 0.78 |
| 2021 | 1,306 | #266 | 0.75 |
| 2020 | 1,189 | #284 | 0.69 |
| 2019 | 995 | #338 | 0.55 |
| 2018 | 478 | #579 | 0.26 |
| 2017 | 340 | #715 | 0.18 |
| 2016 | 335 | #731 | 0.18 |
Every recorded year (31)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 346 | #717 | 0.18 |
| 2014 | 368 | #685 | 0.19 |
| 2013 | 317 | #738 | 0.17 |
| 2012 | 294 | #773 | 0.15 |
| 2011 | 210 | #943 | 0.11 |
| 2010 | 194 | #1,009 | 0.10 |
| 2009 | 144 | #1,243 | 0.07 |
| 2008 | 125 | #1,363 | 0.06 |
| 2007 | 98 | #1,597 | 0.05 |
| 2006 | 83 | #1,701 | 0.04 |
| 2005 | 49 | #2,368 | 0.02 |
| 2004 | 44 | #2,492 | 0.02 |
| 2003 | 22 | #3,860 | 0.01 |
| 2002 | 33 | #2,821 | 0.02 |
| 2001 | 26 | #3,332 | 0.01 |
| 2000 | 16 | #4,613 | 0.01 |
| 1999 | 12 | #5,363 | 0.01 |
| 1998 | 15 | #4,448 | 0.01 |
| 1997 | 10 | #5,717 | 0.01 |
| 1996 | 5 | #9,268 | under 0.01 |
| 1995 | 6 | #7,978 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Crew a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Crew has been given almost only to boys: 71 girls in 31 years of records.
Girls and boys named Crew: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Crew, and how old are they?
12,500 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 12,580 Americans ever recorded as Crew. The median Crew alive today is 5 years old; half are between 3 and 8.
The 2020 Census counted 4,633 people named Crew (39 women and girls, 4,594 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 4,847 born in the U.S. The Census count is 4% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 11 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,360 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 11,100 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Crew born?
The states with the most babies named Crew are Texas, Ohio and Florida, with 20% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 98 | #376 | 0.6× |
| Ohio | 93 | #147 | 1.6× |
| Florida | 75 | #275 | 0.6× |
| Pennsylvania | 73 | #175 | 1.0× |
| California | 59 | #524 | 0.4× |
| Utah | 58 | #85 | 4.8× |
| Michigan | 50 | #199 | 1.2× |
| Illinois | 49 | #239 | 0.8× |
| Tennessee | 45 | #203 | 1.0× |
| North Carolina | 44 | #278 | 0.8× |
Where Crew is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Crew is most over-represented in Utah: since 1995 it was given 4.8 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among boys’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Crew with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 2 names spelled alike, given to 16,757 babies since 1880, Crew is the most given (75% of them). In 2025 it was given to 1,362 of their 1,838 babies (74%), again the most given.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Crew
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Crew and names like it
- Compare Crew and KrewBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sCrew peaked in 2024.
- Utah’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Crew since 1910.
- From surnamesWiktionary’s origin for Crew: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2024The year the most babies were named Crew.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Crew alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with CMost given first.