Kruz
#1,216 in 2025Boys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Kruz has been given to 2,723 babies in the U.S. since 1987. In 2025 it ranked #1,216 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2022, with 197 recorded.
Babies named Kruz, 2025
1 in 19,900
Kruz 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Kruz?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 19,900
- 167 of 3,315,165 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 10,200
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2025
- #1,216
- of 13,926 boys’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 13,761 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Kruz 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 13,761 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Kruz. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Kruzs were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Kruz was born before 2018 — so the typical Kruz is around 7 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2010s
- 47.3% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 97.0%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 2,659
- People you could plausibly meet
2010s — 47.3% of all recorded uses (1,257).
Is Kruz 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
- +56
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- −144
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- +42
- Places climbed
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 1.16×
- More babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 84.8%
- Peak was 2022 (197)
- Years since peak
- 3
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Shifting
- 23.9% average annual change
Spellings of Kruz
Kruz is not the most common spelling — Cruz is, with 39.0% against Kruz's 3.4%.
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 Kruz is used
Across 2016–2025, Kruz was most concentrated in Louisiana — about 1 in 2,778 boys, against 1 in 13,135 across all states with data. It was least common in Virginia (1 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.
Kruz around the world
Where Kruz 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 & Wales2007–2025#1,276in 2025
- Scotland2015–2025#560in 2025
- Northern Ireland2016–2024#404in 2024
- Ireland2020–2025#829in 2025
- Canada2005–2024#2,550in 2024
- South Australia2009–2013#754in 2013
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency, Central Statistics Office, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS, NISRA data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.
Kruz by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
As a boy's name
Names similar to Kruz
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Names with a curve like Kruz
Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Kruz, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.
Sibling names for Kruz
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.