Kru
#1,986 in 2025UnisexBoys' nameGirls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Kru has been given to 631 babies in the U.S. since 2008. In 2025 it ranked #1,986 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2024, with 86 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 94% boys, 6% girls all-time.
Babies named Kru, 2025
1 in 43,100
Kru 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 — Kru over time
In 2025, Kru went to 10% girls and 90% 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 Kru?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 43,100
- 77 of 3,315,165 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 22,200
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2025
- #1,986
- of 13,926 boys’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 29,844 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Kru 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 29,844 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Kru. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Krus were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Kru was born before 2022 — so the typical Kru is around 3 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2020s
- 68.9% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 100.0%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 595
- People you could plausibly meet
2020s — 68.9% of all recorded uses (410).
Is Kru 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
- −117
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- +1,319
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- +3,428
- Places climbed
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 4.53×
- More babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 89.5%
- Peak was 2024 (86)
- Years since peak
- 1
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 37.0% average annual change
Where Kru is used
Across 2016–2025, Kru was most concentrated in Georgia — about 1 in 25,000 boys, against 1 in 45,347 across all states with data. It was least common in Tennessee (1 in 100,000).
Most concentrated
- 1Georgia1 in 25,000
- 2Alabama1 in 33,333
- 3Pennsylvania1 in 33,333
- 4Texas1 in 33,333
- 5Indiana1 in 50,000
- 6Missouri1 in 50,000
- 7Ohio1 in 50,000
- 8California1 in 100,000
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.
Kru by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
As a boy's name
Names similar to Kru
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Kru
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.