Cruise — #6002 US boys' name

What the Data Says About Cruise

The Social Security Administration has registered 403 babies named Cruise between 1987 and 2024, spanning 38 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Cruise currently holds the #6002 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2023, when 26 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Cruise performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 138 births during that ten-year window. Across the 5 decades of recorded activity, Cruise shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 26 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Cruise in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Cruise 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 403 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.