Cru
Cru was given to 105 boys in 2025, #1,611 among boys’ names; 1,588 Americans have been recorded with it since 1990 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,580 Americans named Cru and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 7 years old and half are between 4 and 12.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Cru by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Cru?
#1,611 among boys’ names, 2025
Cru rose from #2,136 in 2015 to #1,611 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 33.9 to 61.5 per million.
142 babies in 2021, the peak
Cru peaked in 2021, when 142 babies were given it (135 boys, #1,366 among boys’ names). The 105 births of 2025 are 74% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 105 | #1,611 | 61.5 |
| 2024 | 132 | #1,410 | 76.6 |
| 2023 | 110 | #1,579 | 64.3 |
| 2022 | 141 | #1,331 | 80.8 |
| 2021 | 135 | #1,366 | 77.2 |
| 2020 | 121 | #1,425 | 70.1 |
| 2019 | 112 | #1,518 | 62.4 |
| 2018 | 90 | #1,725 | 49.6 |
| 2017 | 64 | #2,136 | 34.6 |
| 2016 | 78 | #1,890 | 41.1 |
Every recorded year (25)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 65 | #2,136 | 33.9 |
| 2014 | 63 | #2,157 | 32.8 |
| 2013 | 55 | #2,307 | 29.1 |
| 2012 | 48 | #2,561 | 25.3 |
| 2011 | 58 | #2,237 | 30.5 |
| 2010 | 38 | #3,029 | 19.8 |
| 2009 | 37 | #3,115 | 18.7 |
| 2008 | 33 | #3,355 | 16.2 |
| 2007 | 15 | #5,695 | 7.2 |
| 2006 | 17 | #5,112 | 8.3 |
| 2005 | 12 | #6,295 | 6.0 |
| 2004 | 7 | #9,132 | 3.5 |
| 2002 | 6 | #9,596 | 3.1 |
| 2000 | 5 | #10,674 | 2.5 |
| 1990 | 6 | #7,347 | 2.9 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Cru a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 1,588 Americans recorded as Cru, 2% are girls and 98% boys. In 2025 it went to 105 boys; SSA lists no girls with it that year (fewer than 5, or none).
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Cru: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Cru, and how old are they?
1,580 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 1,588 Americans ever recorded as Cru. The median Cru alive today is 7 years old; half are between 4 and 12.
The 2020 Census counted 830 people named Cru (25 women and girls, 805 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 839 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 6 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 273 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 1,300 |
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 Cru born?
The states with the most babies named Cru are Florida, Texas and Arizona, with 81% of its births recorded by state in 2025; Arizona is not among the ten states with the most births.
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 Cru 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 4 names spelled alike, given to 6,481 babies since 1880, Cru is the third most given (25% of them). In 2025 it was given to 105 of their 784 babies (13%), again the third 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 Cru
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 Cru and names like it
- Compare Cru and CrueBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sCru peaked in 2021.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Cru since 1910.
- The top names of 2021The year the most babies were named Cru.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Cru alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with CMost given first.