Kross
Kross was given to 184 boys in 2025, #1,150 among boys’ names; 1,604 Americans have been recorded with it since 1997 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,590 Americans named Kross and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 5 years old and half are between 3 and 7.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Kross by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Kross?
#1,150 among boys’ names, 2025
Kross rose from #5,185 in 2015 to #1,150 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 0.01 to 0.11 per 1,000.
207 babies in 2022, the peak
Kross peaked in 2022, when 207 babies were given it (195 boys, #1,099 among boys’ names). The 189 births of 2025 (girls and boys) are 91% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 184 | #1,150 | 0.11 |
| 2024 | 148 | #1,315 | 0.09 |
| 2023 | 184 | #1,140 | 0.11 |
| 2022 | 195 | #1,099 | 0.11 |
| 2021 | 192 | #1,093 | 0.11 |
| 2020 | 181 | #1,099 | 0.10 |
| 2019 | 123 | #1,427 | 0.07 |
| 2018 | 21 | #4,679 | 0.01 |
| 2017 | 13 | #6,522 | 0.01 |
| 2016 | 26 | #4,053 | 0.01 |
Every recorded year (29)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 18 | #5,185 | 0.01 |
| 2014 | 19 | #4,978 | 0.01 |
| 2013 | 23 | #4,258 | 0.01 |
| 2012 | 12 | #6,854 | 0.01 |
| 2011 | 13 | #6,434 | 0.01 |
| 2010 | 16 | #5,623 | 0.01 |
| 2009 | 16 | #5,712 | 0.01 |
| 2008 | 15 | #5,943 | 0.01 |
| 2007 | 14 | #6,125 | 0.01 |
| 2006 | 13 | #6,307 | 0.01 |
| 2005 | 11 | #6,897 | 0.01 |
| 2004 | 18 | #4,700 | 0.01 |
| 2003 | 10 | #7,019 | 0.01 |
| 2002 | 10 | #6,821 | 0.01 |
| 2001 | 16 | #4,798 | 0.01 |
| 2000 | 7 | #8,723 | under 0.01 |
| 1999 | 20 | #3,772 | 0.01 |
| 1998 | 23 | #3,345 | 0.01 |
| 1997 | 16 | #4,159 | 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Kross a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 1,604 Americans recorded as Kross, 3% are girls and 97% boys. In 2025 it went to 5 girls and 184 boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Kross: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Kross, and how old are they?
1,590 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 1,604 Americans ever recorded as Kross. The median Kross alive today is 5 years old; half are between 3 and 7.
The 2020 Census counted 439 people named Kross (25 women and girls, 414 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 523 born in the U.S. The Census count is 16% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 226 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 1,370 |
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 Kross born?
The states with the most babies named Kross are Texas, Georgia and California, with 38% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 24 | #997 | 1.1× |
| Georgia | 14 | #693 | 1.9× |
| California | 14 | #1,340 | 0.5× |
| Louisiana | 13 | #385 | 2.6× |
| Michigan | 13 | #623 | 0.8× |
| Maryland | 13 | #400 | 1.3× |
| North Carolina | 11 | #806 | 1.0× |
| New York | 7 | #1,501 | 0.3× |
| Ohio | 7 | #1,079 | 0.5× |
| Pennsylvania | 7 | #1,053 | 0.4× |
Where Kross is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Kross is most over-represented in Georgia: since 1997 it was given 1.9 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 Kross 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 2 names spelled alike, given to 2,985 babies since 1880, Kross is the most given (54% of them). In 2025 it was given to 189 of their 273 babies (69%), 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 Kross
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 Kross and names like it
- Compare Kross and CrossBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sKross peaked in 2022.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Kross since 1910.
- The top names of 2022The year the most babies were named Kross.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Kross alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with KMost given first.