Cross — #2461 US boys' name

What the Data Says About Cross

The Social Security Administration has registered 1,297 babies named Cross between 1997 and 2024, spanning 28 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Cross currently holds the #2461 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2021, when 76 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Cross performed strongest in the 2000s, accumulating 470 births during that ten-year window. Across the 4 decades of recorded activity, Cross shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Texas, which accounts for 189 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by California and Georgia. In total, SSA state-level files list Cross in 11 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Cross 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 1,297 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.