Crucita — girls' name
84 babies named Crucita in U.S. Social Security records since 1919, with the highest year being 1959. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
18% of everyone ever named Crucita was born in this single decade.
9 babies were named Crucita in 1959 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Crucita
The Social Security Administration has registered 84 babies named Crucita between 1919 and 1995, spanning 77 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Crucita currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 1995. The name reached its historical peak in 1959, when 9 babies received it in a single year.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Crucita performed strongest in the 1940s, accumulating 15 births during that ten-year window. Across the 9 decades of recorded activity, Crucita shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in New Mexico, which accounts for 11 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Crucita in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.
No etymological entry is currently available for Crucita 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 84 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.
Crucita at a glance
Last recorded 1995Peak year
Current rank
Active since
Crucita popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 1995–1919
- Peak year (1959)
- 9
- Annual births at peak — across 77 years of records
No longer in the modern top-1000 — last recorded 1995.
84 total births across 77 years of SSA records. Peaked in 1959 with 9 births in a single year.
Crucita by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 1940s
- 15 births that decade — 18% of Crucita's all-time total
Crucita decade highlights
- Peak decade 15 births
- Runner-up 14 births
- Modern era share 2010s + 2020s
- Decades tracked with recorded births
1940s was Crucita's strongest decade
15 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 18% of all-time use.
Crucita by state
Where Crucita concentrates geographically — total births since 1919
| Rank | State | Visual share | Births | Share of total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | New Mexico | | 11 | 13.1% |
11 of 84 births nationwide.
Top 5 states
- New Mexico 13.1% of nationwide
Recorded in 1 of 51 SSA jurisdictions
New Mexico accounts for 13.1% of all recorded births nationwide — a relatively diffuse profile for this name.
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Data Sources
Data as of 2024. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications — National Data, 1919–1995 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames). National-level data includes all names with 5 or more occurrences in a given year.
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names — State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip). Includes all names with 5 or more occurrences per state per year; rarer names are excluded for privacy.