Crosby
Crosby is given to both girls and boys: 34 girls and 162 boys were given it in 2025 (#4,194 among girls’ names and #1,235 among boys’, #2,246 among all names counting both); 6,490 Americans have been recorded with it since 1912 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 6,160 Americans named Crosby and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (95% of everyone recorded); the median is 11 years old and half are between 7 and 14.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Crosby by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Crosby mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Crosby is “a male given name transferred from the surname.” Its etymology gives the senses “cross” (kross) and “settlement” (býr).
From Old Norse kross (“cross”) + býr (“settlement”).
/ˈkɹɑz.bi/
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Crosby?
#1,235 among boys’ names, 2025
Crosby fell from #578 in 2015 to #1,235 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 0.25 to 0.09 per 1,000.
503 babies in 2015, the peak
Crosby peaked in 2015, when 503 babies were given it (484 boys, #578 among boys’ names). The 196 births of 2025 (girls and boys) are 39% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 162 | #1,235 | 0.09 |
| 2024 | 171 | #1,198 | 0.10 |
| 2023 | 206 | #1,054 | 0.12 |
| 2022 | 218 | #1,021 | 0.12 |
| 2021 | 240 | #943 | 0.14 |
| 2020 | 289 | #802 | 0.17 |
| 2019 | 299 | #780 | 0.17 |
| 2018 | 345 | #702 | 0.19 |
| 2017 | 418 | #625 | 0.23 |
| 2016 | 428 | #625 | 0.23 |
Every recorded year (102)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 484 | #578 | 0.25 |
| 2014 | 435 | #615 | 0.23 |
| 2013 | 378 | #647 | 0.20 |
| 2012 | 352 | #672 | 0.19 |
| 2011 | 306 | #741 | 0.16 |
| 2010 | 180 | #1,071 | 0.09 |
| 2009 | 73 | #1,943 | 0.04 |
| 2008 | 55 | #2,351 | 0.03 |
| 2007 | 21 | #4,526 | 0.01 |
| 2006 | 19 | #4,709 | 0.01 |
| 2005 | 11 | #6,717 | 0.01 |
| 2004 | 14 | #5,544 | 0.01 |
| 2003 | 17 | #4,638 | 0.01 |
| 2002 | 18 | #4,345 | 0.01 |
| 2001 | 12 | #5,733 | 0.01 |
| 2000 | 12 | #5,627 | 0.01 |
| 1999 | 18 | #4,006 | 0.01 |
| 1998 | 7 | #7,709 | under 0.01 |
| 1997 | 12 | #5,006 | 0.01 |
| 1996 | 10 | #5,604 | 0.01 |
| 1995 | 16 | #3,888 | 0.01 |
| 1994 | 16 | #3,938 | 0.01 |
| 1993 | 17 | #3,681 | 0.01 |
| 1992 | 14 | #4,137 | 0.01 |
| 1991 | 23 | #2,839 | 0.01 |
| 1990 | 15 | #3,806 | 0.01 |
| 1989 | 13 | #4,062 | 0.01 |
| 1988 | 22 | #2,623 | 0.01 |
| 1987 | 14 | #3,367 | 0.01 |
| 1986 | 6 | #6,081 | under 0.01 |
| 1985 | 21 | #2,439 | 0.01 |
| 1984 | 11 | #3,747 | 0.01 |
| 1983 | 13 | #3,269 | 0.01 |
| 1982 | 6 | #5,782 | under 0.01 |
| 1980 | 8 | #4,576 | under 0.01 |
| 1979 | 10 | #3,858 | 0.01 |
| 1978 | 7 | #4,640 | under 0.01 |
| 1977 | 6 | #5,251 | under 0.01 |
| 1976 | 6 | #5,044 | under 0.01 |
| 1975 | 6 | #4,918 | under 0.01 |
| 1974 | 7 | #4,267 | under 0.01 |
| 1971 | 7 | #4,049 | under 0.01 |
| 1969 | 9 | #3,111 | 0.01 |
| 1967 | 5 | #4,070 | under 0.01 |
| 1966 | 5 | #4,057 | under 0.01 |
| 1965 | 7 | #3,299 | under 0.01 |
| 1964 | 7 | #3,344 | under 0.01 |
| 1963 | 7 | #3,372 | under 0.01 |
| 1962 | 5 | #4,166 | under 0.01 |
| 1961 | 6 | #3,721 | under 0.01 |
| 1960 | 6 | #3,739 | under 0.01 |
| 1957 | 11 | #2,515 | 0.01 |
| 1956 | 7 | #3,273 | under 0.01 |
| 1955 | 5 | #3,979 | under 0.01 |
| 1954 | 7 | #3,219 | under 0.01 |
| 1953 | 8 | #2,957 | under 0.01 |
| 1952 | 10 | #2,557 | 0.01 |
| 1951 | 17 | #1,850 | 0.01 |
| 1950 | 6 | #3,395 | under 0.01 |
| 1949 | 13 | #2,141 | 0.01 |
| 1948 | 6 | #3,381 | under 0.01 |
| 1947 | 7 | #3,139 | under 0.01 |
| 1946 | 12 | #2,174 | 0.01 |
| 1945 | 7 | #2,796 | 0.01 |
| 1944 | 6 | #3,177 | under 0.01 |
| 1943 | 13 | #2,093 | 0.01 |
| 1942 | 13 | #2,063 | 0.01 |
| 1941 | 6 | #3,215 | under 0.01 |
| 1939 | 12 | #2,085 | 0.01 |
| 1938 | 7 | #2,920 | 0.01 |
| 1937 | 8 | #2,725 | 0.01 |
| 1936 | 8 | #2,682 | 0.01 |
| 1935 | 11 | #2,279 | 0.01 |
| 1934 | 7 | #3,031 | 0.01 |
| 1933 | 5 | #3,752 | 0.01 |
| 1931 | 7 | #3,156 | 0.01 |
| 1930 | 8 | #3,076 | 0.01 |
| 1929 | 6 | #3,634 | 0.01 |
| 1928 | 6 | #3,801 | 0.01 |
| 1927 | 9 | #2,955 | 0.01 |
| 1925 | 11 | #2,624 | 0.01 |
| 1923 | 7 | #3,535 | 0.01 |
| 1922 | 11 | #2,663 | 0.01 |
| 1921 | 5 | #4,485 | under 0.01 |
| 1920 | 10 | #2,808 | 0.01 |
| 1919 | 5 | #4,290 | 0.01 |
| 1918 | 10 | #2,730 | 0.01 |
| 1917 | 9 | #2,779 | 0.01 |
| 1916 | 7 | #3,242 | 0.01 |
| 1915 | 10 | #2,484 | 0.01 |
| 1914 | 9 | #2,311 | 0.01 |
| 1912 | 5 | #2,629 | 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Crosby a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 6,490 Americans recorded as Crosby, 9% are girls and 91% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Crosby: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Crosby, and how old are they?
6,160 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 95% of the 6,490 Americans ever recorded as Crosby. The median Crosby alive today is 11 years old; half are between 7 and 14.
The 2020 Census counted 4,723 people named Crosby (446 women and girls, 4,277 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 4,799 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 28 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 89 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 74 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 264 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,280 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 4,430 |
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 Crosby born?
The states with the most babies named Crosby are California, Texas and Minnesota, with 40% of its births recorded by state in 2025; Minnesota is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 16 | #1,210 | 0.5× |
| Texas | 15 | #1,308 | 0.5× |
| Minnesota | 13 | #428 | 4.1× |
| New York | 7 | #1,447 | 0.4× |
| Tennessee | 7 | #862 | 0.8× |
| Iowa | 7 | #458 | 1.3× |
| Colorado | 6 | #782 | 1.6× |
| Michigan | 6 | #1,015 | 0.6× |
| North Carolina | 6 | #1,175 | 0.6× |
| Arizona | 6 | #863 | 0.3× |
Where Crosby is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Crosby is most over-represented in Minnesota: since 1912 it was given 4.1 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 Crosby 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 3 names spelled alike, given to 6,693 babies since 1880, Crosby is the most given (97% of them). In 2025 it was given to 196 of their 201 babies (98%), 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 Crosby
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 Crosby and names like it
- Compare Crosby and KrosbyBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sCrosby peaked in 2015.
- Minnesota’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Crosby since 1910.
- From surnamesWiktionary’s origin for Crosby: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2015The year the most babies were named Crosby.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Crosby alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with CMost given first.