Cross
Cross was given to 78 boys in 2025, #1,960 among boys’ names; 1,381 Americans have been recorded with it since 1997 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,360 Americans named Cross and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 14 years old and half are between 6 and 23.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Cross by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Cross?
#1,960 among boys’ names, 2025
Cross rose from #3,093 in 2015 to #1,960 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 19.3 to 45.7 per million.
84 babies in 2025, the peak
Cross peaked in 2025, when 84 babies were given it (78 boys, #1,960 among boys’ names). In 2024 it went to 56 boys.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 78 | #1,960 | 45.7 |
| 2024 | 56 | #2,448 | 32.5 |
| 2023 | 64 | #2,227 | 37.4 |
| 2022 | 62 | #2,302 | 35.5 |
| 2021 | 76 | #1,965 | 43.4 |
| 2020 | 62 | #2,215 | 35.9 |
| 2019 | 50 | #2,593 | 27.9 |
| 2018 | 32 | #3,458 | 17.6 |
| 2017 | 35 | #3,255 | 18.9 |
| 2016 | 28 | #3,794 | 14.8 |
Every recorded year (29)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 37 | #3,093 | 19.3 |
| 2014 | 44 | #2,714 | 22.9 |
| 2013 | 44 | #2,674 | 23.3 |
| 2012 | 25 | #4,029 | 13.2 |
| 2011 | 27 | #3,812 | 14.2 |
| 2010 | 35 | #3,188 | 18.2 |
| 2009 | 52 | #2,459 | 26.2 |
| 2008 | 40 | #2,959 | 19.6 |
| 2007 | 44 | #2,727 | 21.2 |
| 2006 | 33 | #3,233 | 16.1 |
| 2005 | 49 | #2,369 | 24.5 |
| 2004 | 49 | #2,315 | 24.7 |
| 2003 | 51 | #2,154 | 25.8 |
| 2002 | 48 | #2,197 | 24.7 |
| 2001 | 61 | #1,816 | 31.4 |
| 2000 | 43 | #2,255 | 21.9 |
| 1999 | 44 | #2,138 | 22.9 |
| 1998 | 63 | #1,643 | 33.0 |
| 1997 | 43 | #2,064 | 22.8 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Cross a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Cross has been given almost only to boys: 6 girls in 29 years of records.
Girls and boys named Cross: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Cross, and how old are they?
1,360 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 1,381 Americans ever recorded as Cross. The median Cross alive today is 14 years old; half are between 6 and 23.
The 2020 Census counted 1,073 people named Cross (61 women and girls, 1,012 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 982 born in the U.S. The Census count is 9% above that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 695 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 669 |
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 Cross born?
The states with the most babies named Cross are Texas, Georgia and Arkansas, with 83% of its births recorded by state in 2025; Arkansas is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 12 | #1,501 | 1.4× |
| Georgia | 6 | #1,241 | 0.7× |
| Arkansas | 6 | #502 | 0.4× |
| Maryland | 5 | #828 | 0.2× |
Where Cross is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Cross is most over-represented in Texas: since 1997 it was given 1.4 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 Cross 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 2,985 babies since 1880, Cross is the second most given (46% of them). In 2025 it was given to 84 of their 273 babies (31%), again the second 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 Cross
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 Cross and names like it
- Compare Cross and KrossBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sCross peaked in 2025.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Cross since 1910.
- The top names of 2025The year the most babies were named Cross.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Cross alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with CMost given first.