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Krew

#601 in 2025Boys' name

Variant of Crew

Krew has been given to 4,177 babies in the U.S. since 2000. In 2025 it ranked #601 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2024, with 491 recorded.

Babies named Krew, 2025

1 in 6,960

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Krew: meaning, origin, and history

Variant of Crew

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Krew means

Krew is a variant of Crew.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Krew → 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, 4,136 boys were recorded with the name Krew between 2000 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 491 in 2024; its best national rank was #581 in 2024.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #707 in 2020 to #601 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #1,466 in 2015 to #601 in 2025.

In the United States, 41 girls were recorded with the name Krew between 2018 and 2024. Its highest annual count was 9 in 2021; its best national rank was #10,710 in 2024.

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 Krew?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 6,960
476 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 3,590
0.03% of boys
Rank, 2025
#601
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
4,829 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Krew 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 1001%
School of 5007%

Put another way: gather 4,829 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Krew. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Krews were born

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

Median birth year
2021
About 4 years old
Biggest decade
2020s
63.6% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
99.9%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
4,136
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2020s — 63.6% of all recorded uses (2,631).

Is Krew 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
−20
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
+106
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+865
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
4.14×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
96.9%
Peak was 2024 (491)
Years since peak
1
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
29.4% average annual change
Best rank ever
#581
2024

Spellings of Krew

Krew is not the most common spelling — Fred is, with 42.5% against Krew's 0.51%.

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 Krew is used

Across 2016–2025, Krew was most concentrated in Utah — about 1 in 800 boys, against 1 in 4,897 across all states with data. It was least common in Nevada (1 in 25,000).

4125 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Utah1 in 800
  2. 2Idaho1 in 901
  3. 3North Dakota1 in 926
  4. 4Nebraska1 in 1,235
  5. 5Iowa1 in 1,351
  6. 6Oklahoma1 in 2,222
  7. 7Indiana1 in 2,273
  8. 8Kansas1 in 2,632

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, Krew is one of the more regionally concentrated names in the country — more concentrated than 96% of the names used widely enough to compare. See the most regional names

Krew around the world

Where Krew 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
    2020–2025
    #3,684
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2012–2024
    #857
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1989–1989
    #478
    in 1989

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Krew by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#601
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 106
Best rank ever
#581
2024
Peak year
2024
491 that year
First recorded
2000
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
4,136
Count in 2025
476

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#10,710
2024
Peak year
2021
9 that year
First recorded
2018
Last recorded
2024
All-time count
41
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Krew

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

KreedKreeCrewKregDrewKreggTrewKreweKreigJrewKreyLeandrewNdrewKendrewKreekKreightonKrestonAmdrewKreoKreuBrewDeandrewKreidAdrew

Names with a curve like Krew

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

CillianZakaiCaspianLianKenzoReignTruMyloAnderLedgerAzrielEliam

Sibling names for Krew

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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