Krosby
UnisexBoys' nameGirls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Krosby has been given to 187 babies in the U.S. since 2010. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 2015, with 16 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 76% boys, 24% girls all-time.
Babies named Krosby, 2024
1 in 478,000
Krosby 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
Girls or boys — Krosby over time
In 2025, Krosby went to 100% girls and 0% boys.
A sex is only published in years it reached five applications, so a stretch at 0% or 100% means the other side stayed under that floor — not that it was never used.
How common is Krosby?
Krosby had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2024, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 2024
- 1 in 478,000
- 7 of 3,342,801 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 246,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2024
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 331,009 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Krosby sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2024 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 331,009 children born in 2024 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Krosby. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Krosbys were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Krosby was born before 2015 — so the typical Krosby is around 10 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2010s
- 74.8% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 100.0%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 143
- People you could plausibly meet
2010s — 74.8% of all recorded uses (107).
Is Krosby 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
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- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- New entry
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 10 years ago
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- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
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- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 0%
- Peak was 2015 (16)
- Years since peak
- 10
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 27.2% average annual change
Spellings of Krosby
Krosby is not the most common spelling — Kolby is, with 30.4% against Krosby's 0.37%.
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.
Krosby by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
As a boy's name
Names similar to Krosby
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Krosby
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.