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Crew

#256 in 2025Boys' name

Weir

Crew has been given to 12,580 babies in the U.S. since 1995. In 2025 it ranked #256 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2024, with 1,415 recorded.

Babies named Crew, 2025

1 in 2,450

Crew over time, 1880–2025

BoysGirls
05001K1.5K18801900192019401960198020002020

Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Crew: meaning, origin, and history

Weir

surname transfer

What Crew means

Crew means “weir”, associated with criu.

Dictionary etymologyReferences, data & attribution

From Crewe in Cheshire, Old Welsh criu (“weir”).

Excerpt from Wiktionary: Crew (English) · CC BY-SA 4.0

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Origin, language, and formation

Crew is used in English. Its origins include surname transfer.

Crew comes through Old Welsh criu.

Crew is recorded as a surname transferred into given-name use.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 12,509 boys were recorded with the name Crew between 1995 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 1,415 in 2024; its best national rank was #250 in 2024.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #284 in 2020 to #256 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #717 in 2015 to #256 in 2025.

In the United States, 71 girls were recorded with the name Crew between 2015 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 14 in 2021; its best national rank was #7,716 in 2021.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #8,514 in 2020 to #9,591 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #17,036 in 2015 to #9,591 in 2025.

How common is Crew?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 2,450
1,352 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 1,260
0.08% of boys
Rank, 2025
#256
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
1,701 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Crew sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 301%
Grade of 1004%
School of 50018%

Put another way: gather 1,701 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Crew. In a class of 30 the chance is 1%.

When Crews were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Crew was born before 2021 — so the typical Crew is around 4 today.

Median birth year
2021
About 4 years old
Biggest decade
2020s
63.5% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
99.5%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
12,509
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2020s — 63.5% of all recorded uses (7,944).

Is Crew rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
−6
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
+28
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+461
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
3.91×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
95.5%
Peak was 2024 (1,415)
Years since peak
1
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
22.2% average annual change
Best rank ever
#250
2024

Spellings of Crew

Crew is not the most common spelling — Fred is, with 34.9% against Crew's 1.3%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Crew is used

Across 2016–2025, Crew was most concentrated in Utah — about 1 in 446 boys, against 1 in 1,539 across all states with data. It was least common in New York (1 in 3,704).

27224 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Utah1 in 446
  2. 2South Dakota1 in 452
  3. 3Nebraska1 in 500
  4. 4North Dakota1 in 595
  5. 5Iowa1 in 602
  6. 6Idaho1 in 606
  7. 7Kansas1 in 725
  8. 8Maine1 in 820

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings.

Geographically, Crew is somewhat regional — more concentrated than 56% of the names used widely enough to compare. See the most regional names

Crew around the world

Where Crew ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    2014–2025
    #1,307
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    2025–2025
    #762
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2009–2024
    #503
    in 2024

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland and Statistics Canada. ONS, NRS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Crew by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#256
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 28
Best rank ever
#250
2024
Peak year
2024
1,415 that year
First recorded
1995
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
12,509
Count in 2025
1,352

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#9,591
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 1,077
Best rank ever
#7,716
2021
Peak year
2021
14 that year
First recorded
2015
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
71
Count in 2025
10

Names similar to Crew

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Names with a curve like Crew

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Crew, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

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Sibling names for Crew

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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