Kruz
Kruz was given to 167 boys in 2025, #1,216 among boys’ names; 2,723 Americans have been recorded with it since 1987 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,700 Americans named Kruz and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 8 years old and half are between 4 and 13.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Kruz by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Kruz?
#1,216 among boys’ names, 2025
Kruz rose from #1,258 in 2015 to #1,216 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 75.1 to 97.8 per million.
204 babies in 2022, the peak
Kruz peaked in 2022, when 204 babies were given it (197 boys, #1,096 among boys’ names). The 167 births of 2025 are 82% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 167 | #1,216 | 0.10 |
| 2024 | 155 | #1,272 | 0.09 |
| 2023 | 171 | #1,186 | 0.10 |
| 2022 | 197 | #1,096 | 0.11 |
| 2021 | 181 | #1,128 | 0.10 |
| 2020 | 187 | #1,072 | 0.11 |
| 2019 | 156 | #1,223 | 0.09 |
| 2018 | 153 | #1,219 | 0.08 |
| 2017 | 116 | #1,465 | 0.06 |
| 2016 | 121 | #1,440 | 0.06 |
Every recorded year (37)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 144 | #1,258 | 0.08 |
| 2014 | 149 | #1,228 | 0.08 |
| 2013 | 118 | #1,419 | 0.06 |
| 2012 | 101 | #1,567 | 0.05 |
| 2011 | 112 | #1,463 | 0.06 |
| 2010 | 87 | #1,746 | 0.05 |
| 2009 | 74 | #1,934 | 0.04 |
| 2008 | 56 | #2,335 | 0.03 |
| 2007 | 34 | #3,284 | 0.02 |
| 2006 | 34 | #3,191 | 0.02 |
| 2005 | 13 | #6,064 | 0.01 |
| 2004 | 13 | #5,997 | 0.01 |
| 2003 | 20 | #4,206 | 0.01 |
| 2002 | 11 | #6,333 | 0.01 |
| 2001 | 9 | #7,237 | under 0.01 |
| 2000 | 5 | #11,405 | under 0.01 |
| 1999 | 8 | #7,546 | under 0.01 |
| 1998 | 5 | #10,562 | under 0.01 |
| 1997 | 12 | #5,134 | 0.01 |
| 1996 | 7 | #7,604 | under 0.01 |
| 1995 | 6 | #8,400 | under 0.01 |
| 1993 | 6 | #8,210 | under 0.01 |
| 1991 | 5 | #8,970 | under 0.01 |
| 1990 | 5 | #8,882 | under 0.01 |
| 1989 | 8 | #5,955 | under 0.01 |
| 1988 | 8 | #5,482 | under 0.01 |
| 1987 | 5 | #7,615 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Kruz a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 2,723 Americans recorded as Kruz, 2% are girls and 98% boys. In 2025 it went to 167 boys; SSA lists no girls with it that year (fewer than 5, or none).
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Kruz: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Kruz, and how old are they?
2,700 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 2,723 Americans ever recorded as Kruz. The median Kruz alive today is 8 years old; half are between 4 and 13.
The 2020 Census counted 1,448 people named Kruz (47 women and girls, 1,401 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,670 born in the U.S. The Census count is 13% 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 48 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 602 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 2,050 |
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 Kruz born?
The states with the most babies named Kruz are California, Texas and Oklahoma, with 40% of its births recorded by state in 2025; Oklahoma is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 20 | #1,065 | 0.8× |
| Texas | 18 | #1,198 | 0.6× |
| Oklahoma | 6 | #668 | 1.6× |
| Arkansas | 6 | #526 | 0.9× |
| Louisiana | 5 | #853 | 2.1× |
| Ohio | 5 | #1,387 | 0.8× |
| Georgia | 5 | #1,460 | 0.6× |
| Maryland | 5 | #872 | 0.9× |
| Missouri | 5 | #943 | 0.8× |
| Tennessee | 5 | #1,121 | 0.5× |
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 Kruz with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
How common is the spelling Kruz?
Kruz is a less common spelling of Cruz: SSA has recorded 2,723 Kruz and 35,024 Cruz since 1880.
Of these 2 names spelled alike, given to 37,747 babies since 1880, Kruz is the second most given (7.2% of them). In 2025 it was given to 167 of their 1,207 babies (14%), again the second 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 Kruz
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 Kruz and names like it
- Compare Kruz and CruzBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sKruz peaked in 2022.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Kruz since 1910.
- The top names of 2022The year the most babies were named Kruz.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Kruz alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with KMost given first.