Cru
#1,611 in 2025Boys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Cru has been given to 1,588 babies in the U.S. since 1990. In 2025 it ranked #1,611 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2022, with 141 recorded.
Babies named Cru, 2025
1 in 31,600
Cru over time, 1880–2025
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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Cru?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 31,600
- 105 of 3,315,165 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 16,300
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2025
- #1,611
- of 13,926 boys’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 21,886 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Cru sits on the popularity scale
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.
Put another way: gather 21,886 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Cru. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Crus were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Cru was born before 2019 — so the typical Cru is around 6 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2020s
- 47.9% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 99.3%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 1,553
- People you could plausibly meet
2020s — 47.9% of all recorded uses (744).
Is Cru 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
- −201
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- −186
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- +525
- Places climbed
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 1.62×
- More babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 74.5%
- Peak was 2022 (141)
- Years since peak
- 3
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Shifting
- 24.0% average annual change
Where Cru is used
Across 2016–2025, Cru was most concentrated in South Dakota — about 1 in 7,692 boys, against 1 in 24,165 across all states with data. It was least common in Tennessee (1 in 100,000).
Most concentrated
- 1South Dakota1 in 7,692
- 2Ohio1 in 11,111
- 3Iowa1 in 14,286
- 4Texas1 in 14,286
- 5California1 in 16,667
- 6Colorado1 in 20,000
- 7Arizona1 in 25,000
- 8Florida1 in 25,000
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.
Cru around the world
Where Cru 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 & Wales2021–2025#4,275in 2025
- Scotland2023–2023#728in 2023
- Ireland2020–2020#741in 2020
- Canada2012–2024#2,328in 2024
- South Australia2013–2013#754in 2013
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Central Statistics Office, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.
Cru by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
As a boy's name
Names similar to Cru
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Cru
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.