Croix
Croix was given to 59 boys in 2025, #2,334 among boys’ names; 1,201 Americans have been recorded with it since 1987 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,190 Americans named Croix and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 10 years old and half are between 6 and 15.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Croix by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Croix?
#2,334 among boys’ names, 2025
Croix fell from #2,070 in 2015 to #2,334 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 35.5 to 34.5 per million.
88 babies in 2019, the peak
Croix peaked in 2019, when 88 boys were given it, #1,766 among boys’ names. The 65 births of 2025 (girls and boys) are 74% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 59 | #2,334 | 34.5 |
| 2024 | 52 | #2,569 | 30.2 |
| 2023 | 55 | #2,448 | 32.2 |
| 2022 | 52 | #2,594 | 29.8 |
| 2021 | 63 | #2,231 | 36.0 |
| 2020 | 66 | #2,119 | 38.2 |
| 2019 | 88 | #1,766 | 49.0 |
| 2018 | 70 | #2,051 | 38.5 |
| 2017 | 57 | #2,296 | 30.8 |
| 2016 | 67 | #2,096 | 35.3 |
Every recorded year (35)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 68 | #2,070 | 35.5 |
| 2014 | 54 | #2,376 | 28.1 |
| 2013 | 60 | #2,183 | 31.7 |
| 2012 | 49 | #2,523 | 25.8 |
| 2011 | 18 | #5,017 | 9.5 |
| 2010 | 28 | #3,731 | 14.6 |
| 2009 | 28 | #3,739 | 14.1 |
| 2008 | 20 | #4,747 | 9.8 |
| 2007 | 17 | #5,243 | 8.2 |
| 2006 | 27 | #3,695 | 13.1 |
| 2005 | 18 | #4,664 | 9.0 |
| 2004 | 27 | #3,466 | 13.6 |
| 2003 | 17 | #4,637 | 8.6 |
| 2002 | 17 | #4,533 | 8.8 |
| 2001 | 16 | #4,711 | 8.2 |
| 2000 | 13 | #5,335 | 6.6 |
| 1999 | 10 | #6,123 | 5.2 |
| 1998 | 12 | #5,197 | 6.3 |
| 1997 | 8 | #6,726 | 4.2 |
| 1996 | 8 | #6,612 | 4.2 |
| 1995 | 6 | #7,979 | 3.2 |
| 1992 | 9 | #5,729 | 4.5 |
| 1990 | 5 | #8,360 | 2.4 |
| 1989 | 8 | #5,731 | 4.0 |
| 1987 | 7 | #5,600 | 3.7 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Croix a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 1,201 Americans recorded as Croix, 2% are girls and 98% boys. In 2025 it went to 6 girls and 59 boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Croix: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Croix, and how old are they?
1,190 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 1,201 Americans ever recorded as Croix. The median Croix alive today is 10 years old; half are between 6 and 15.
The 2020 Census counted 851 people named Croix (48 women and girls, 803 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 847 born in the U.S. The Census count matches that prediction to within 1%.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 41 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 320 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 827 |
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 Croix born?
The states with the most babies named Croix are Wisconsin, Minnesota and North Dakota, with 100% of its births recorded by state in 2025; Wisconsin and Minnesota and North Dakota are not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wisconsin | 18 | #306 | 6.0× |
| Minnesota | 7 | #663 | 5.8× |
| North Dakota | 5 | #231 | 1.2× |
Where Croix is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Croix is most over-represented in Wisconsin: since 1987 it was given 6.0 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 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 Croix 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 1,286 babies since 1880, Croix is the most given (93% of them). In 2025 it was given to 65 of their 71 babies (92%), 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 Croix
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 Croix and names like it
- Compare Croix and KroixBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sCroix peaked in 2019.
- Minnesota’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Croix since 1910.
- The top names of 2019The year the most babies were named Croix.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Croix alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with CMost given first.