Crimson
Crimson is given to both girls and boys: 28 girls and 19 boys were given it in 2025 (#4,792 among girls’ names and #5,075 among boys’, #5,841 among all names counting both); 1,836 Americans have been recorded with it since 1974 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,820 Americans named Crimson and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 12 years old and half are between 7 and 19.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Crimson by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Crimson?
#4,792 among girls’ names, 2025
Crimson fell from #2,818 in 2015 to #4,792 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 34.7 to 17.4 per million.
114 babies in 2016, the peak
Crimson peaked in 2016, when 114 babies were given it (70 girls, #2,545 among girls’ names). The 47 births of 2025 (girls and boys) are 41% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 28 | #4,792 | 19 | #5,075 |
| 2024 | 34 | #4,223 | 30 | #3,712 |
| 2023 | 41 | #3,721 | 29 | #3,810 |
| 2022 | 49 | #3,283 | 29 | #3,788 |
| 2021 | 44 | #3,501 | 25 | #4,133 |
| 2020 | 33 | #4,187 | 30 | #3,587 |
| 2019 | 47 | #3,345 | 32 | #3,501 |
| 2018 | 57 | #2,916 | 30 | #3,614 |
| 2017 | 53 | #3,061 | 38 | #3,078 |
| 2016 | 70 | #2,545 | 44 | #2,733 |
Every recorded year (50)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 62 | #2,818 | 37 | #3,092 |
| 2014 | 52 | #3,145 | 39 | #2,941 |
| 2013 | 60 | #2,845 | 18 | #5,012 |
| 2012 | 59 | #2,910 | 32 | #3,384 |
| 2011 | 50 | #3,277 | 11 | #7,090 |
| 2010 | 37 | #4,042 | 22 | #4,388 |
| 2009 | 29 | #4,968 | 16 | #5,602 |
| 2008 | 32 | #4,677 | 13 | #6,460 |
| 2007 | 31 | #4,715 | 12 | #6,703 |
| 2006 | 31 | #4,603 | 12 | #6,535 |
| 2005 | 25 | #5,137 | 9 | #7,753 |
| 2004 | 13 | #8,363 | 9 | #7,652 |
| 2003 | 24 | #5,116 | under 5 | |
| 2002 | 26 | #4,660 | 5 | #10,985 |
| 2001 | 23 | #5,045 | 5 | #10,891 |
| 2000 | 24 | #4,820 | 5 | #10,673 |
| 1999 | 17 | #5,962 | under 5 | |
| 1998 | 20 | #5,178 | 7 | #7,706 |
| 1997 | 21 | #4,862 | under 5 | |
| 1996 | 17 | #5,581 | under 5 | |
| 1995 | 13 | #6,716 | under 5 | |
| 1994 | 13 | #6,757 | under 5 | |
| 1993 | 14 | #6,337 | under 5 | |
| 1992 | 13 | #6,718 | under 5 | |
| 1991 | 8 | #9,519 | under 5 | |
| 1990 | 12 | #6,958 | under 5 | |
| 1989 | 9 | #8,185 | under 5 | |
| 1988 | 8 | #8,552 | under 5 | |
| 1987 | 6 | #10,105 | under 5 | |
| 1986 | 5 | #11,304 | under 5 | |
| 1985 | 9 | #7,069 | under 5 | |
| 1984 | 7 | #8,347 | under 5 | |
| 1983 | 11 | #5,896 | under 5 | |
| 1982 | 7 | #8,405 | under 5 | |
| 1981 | 7 | #8,297 | under 5 | |
| 1980 | 5 | #10,720 | under 5 | |
| 1978 | 5 | #10,060 | under 5 | |
| 1976 | 6 | #8,364 | under 5 | |
| 1975 | 5 | #9,359 | under 5 | |
| 1974 | 6 | #7,882 | under 5 |
Ranks: girls’ names and boys’ names ranked separately in each year’s SSA file; “under 5” is a year SSA did not list the name for that sex.
Is Crimson a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 1,836 Americans recorded as Crimson, 70% are girls and 30% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Crimson: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Crimson, and how old are they?
1,820 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 1,836 Americans ever recorded as Crimson. The median Crimson alive today is 12 years old; half are between 7 and 19.
The 2020 Census counted 1,308 people named Crimson (952 women and girls, 356 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,447 born in the U.S. The Census count is 10% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 26 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 155 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 613 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 1,020 |
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 Crimson born?
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Alabama | 5 | #848 | 11.0× |
Where Crimson is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Crimson is most over-represented in Alabama: since 1974 it was given 11.0 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 girls’ 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 Crimson 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 4 names spelled alike, given to 2,246 babies since 1880, Crimson is the most given (82% of them). In 2025 it was given to 47 of their 62 babies (76%), 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 Crimson
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 Crimson and names like it
- Compare Crimson and KrimsonBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sCrimson peaked in 2016.
- Alabama’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Crimson since 1910.
- The top names of 2016The year the most babies were named Crimson.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Crimson alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with CMost given first.