Crit — boys' name

What the Data Says About Crit

The Social Security Administration has registered 111 babies named Crit between 1894 and 1959, spanning 66 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Crit currently falls outside the top 1,000 boys' names for 1959. The name reached its historical peak in 1935, when 12 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Crit performed strongest in the 1920s, accumulating 36 births during that ten-year window. Across the 5 decades of recorded activity, Crit shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Kentucky, which accounts for 42 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Crit in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Crit in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 111 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.