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Crue

#797 in 2025Boys' name

Variant of Crew

Crue has been given to 2,633 babies in the U.S. since 1988. In 2025 it ranked #797 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2024, with 446 recorded.

Babies named Crue, 2025

1 in 10,600

Crue over time, 1880–2025

BoysGirls
020040060018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Crue: meaning, origin, and history

Variant of Crew

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Crue means

Crue is a variant of Crew.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Crue → Crew. The family’s meaning is “weir”, recorded in English with the source elements criu.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Crew.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 2,574 boys were recorded with the name Crue between 1988 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 446 in 2024; its best national rank was #629 in 2024.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #1,167 in 2020 to #797 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #2,037 in 2015 to #797 in 2025.

In the United States, 59 girls were recorded with the name Crue between 2020 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 14 in 2023; its best national rank was #7,729 in 2023.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #11,316 in 2020 to #15,437 in 2025.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Crue?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 10,600
314 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 5,440
0.02% of boys
Rank, 2025
#797
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
7,319 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Crue 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 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 5005%

Put another way: gather 7,319 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Crue. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Crues were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Crue was born before 2022 — so the typical Crue is around 3 today.

Median birth year
2022
About 3 years old
Biggest decade
2020s
69.2% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
99.1%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
2,574
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2020s — 69.2% of all recorded uses (1,782).

Is Crue 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
−168
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
+370
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+1,240
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
4.49×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
70.4%
Peak was 2024 (446)
Years since peak
1
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
28.1% average annual change
Best rank ever
#629
2024

Spellings of Crue

Crue is not the most common spelling — Bruce is, with 52.0% against Crue's 0.35%.

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 Crue is used

Across 2016–2025, Crue was most concentrated in South Dakota — about 1 in 1,449 boys, against 1 in 8,854 across all states with data. It was least common in Virginia (1 in 50,000).

269 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1South Dakota1 in 1,449
  2. 2Iowa1 in 2,000
  3. 3Indiana1 in 3,226
  4. 4Oklahoma1 in 3,704
  5. 5Kansas1 in 4,000
  6. 6Ohio1 in 4,545
  7. 7Kentucky1 in 4,762
  8. 8Minnesota1 in 5,000

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.

Crue around the world

Where Crue 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
    2013–2025
    #1,226
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    2022–2025
    #333
    in 2025
  • Northern Ireland
    2023–2025
    #395
    in 2025
  • Ireland
    2022–2023
    #770
    in 2023
  • Canada
    2008–2024
    #1,281
    in 2024

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency, Central Statistics Office and Statistics Canada. ONS, NRS, NISRA data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO data under CC BY 4.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Crue by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#797
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 370
Best rank ever
#629
2024
Peak year
2024
446 that year
First recorded
1988
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
2,574
Count in 2025
314

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#15,437
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 4,121
Best rank ever
#7,729
2023
Peak year
2023
14 that year
First recorded
2020
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
59
Count in 2025
5

Names similar to Crue

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

CruTrueJrueKrueCruzeDrueCruzCruiseLarueCruzitoRueCruseAndrueCruizCrusCruizeCrusoeCruxPrueAnjrue

Names with a curve like Crue

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

WaylenRhodesWylderJiraiyaKyaireRiggsEidenZyairSevynKolsonKenaiCassian

Sibling names for Crue

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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