Cruz — #302 US boys' name

What the Data Says About Cruz

The Social Security Administration has registered 29,755 babies named Cruz between 1880 and 2024, spanning 145 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Cruz currently holds the #302 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2013, when 1,250 babies received it in a single year. Cruz is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 4,217 additional births since 1890.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Cruz performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 10,979 births during that ten-year window. Across the 14 decades of recorded activity, Cruz shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 6,680 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Texas and Arizona. In total, SSA state-level files list Cruz in 46 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Cruz 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 29,755 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.