Crue
Crue was given to 314 boys in 2025, #797 among boys’ names; 2,633 Americans have been recorded with it since 1988 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,610 Americans named Crue and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 4 years old and half are between 2 and 7.
Crue dropped 168 places in 2025, the #17 drop among the boys’ top 1,000 of 2024.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Crue by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Crue?
#797 among boys’ names, 2025
Crue rose from #2,037 in 2015 to #797 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 0.04 to 0.18 per 1,000.
457 babies in 2024, the peak
Crue peaked in 2024, when 457 babies were given it (446 boys, #629 among boys’ names). The 319 births of 2025 (girls and boys) are 70% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 314 | #797 | 0.18 |
| 2024 | 446 | #629 | 0.26 |
| 2023 | 366 | #727 | 0.21 |
| 2022 | 277 | #868 | 0.16 |
| 2021 | 214 | #1,025 | 0.12 |
| 2020 | 165 | #1,167 | 0.10 |
| 2019 | 132 | #1,356 | 0.07 |
| 2018 | 74 | #1,980 | 0.04 |
| 2017 | 55 | #2,352 | 0.03 |
| 2016 | 58 | #2,283 | 0.03 |
Every recorded year (25)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 70 | #2,037 | 0.04 |
| 2014 | 63 | #2,158 | 0.03 |
| 2013 | 56 | #2,288 | 0.03 |
| 2012 | 62 | #2,157 | 0.03 |
| 2011 | 55 | #2,324 | 0.03 |
| 2010 | 41 | #2,880 | 0.02 |
| 2009 | 26 | #3,938 | 0.01 |
| 2008 | 26 | #3,948 | 0.01 |
| 2007 | 23 | #4,259 | 0.01 |
| 2006 | 11 | #6,996 | 0.01 |
| 2005 | 11 | #6,718 | 0.01 |
| 2002 | 6 | #9,597 | under 0.01 |
| 1992 | 5 | #8,643 | under 0.01 |
| 1989 | 8 | #5,732 | under 0.01 |
| 1988 | 10 | #4,503 | 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Crue a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 2,633 Americans recorded as Crue, 2% are girls and 98% boys. In 2025 it went to 5 girls and 314 boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Crue: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Crue, and how old are they?
2,610 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 2,633 Americans ever recorded as Crue. The median Crue alive today is 4 years old; half are between 2 and 7.
The 2020 Census counted 803 people named Crue (18 women and girls, 785 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 829 born in the U.S. The Census count is 3% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 22 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 258 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 2,330 |
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 Crue born?
The states with the most babies named Crue are Texas, Ohio and Iowa, with 27% of its births recorded by state in 2025; Iowa is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 32 | #831 | 0.6× |
| Ohio | 20 | #518 | 1.3× |
| Iowa | 19 | #210 | 2.5× |
| Indiana | 15 | #459 | 1.7× |
| Michigan | 13 | #606 | 0.7× |
| Tennessee | 12 | #600 | 0.8× |
| North Carolina | 11 | #789 | 0.6× |
| Missouri | 11 | #530 | 1.0× |
| Minnesota | 11 | #484 | 1.1× |
| Kentucky | 11 | #431 | 1.1× |
Where Crue is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Crue is most over-represented in Utah: since 1988 it was given 2.9 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 Crue 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, Crue is the most given (41% of them). In 2025 it was given to 319 of their 784 babies (41%), 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 Crue
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 Crue and names like it
- Compare Crue and KrueBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sCrue peaked in 2024.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Crue since 1910.
- The top names of 2024The year the most babies were named Crue.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Crue alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with CMost given first.