Kross
#14,942 for girls in 2025, 5 births · #1,145 for boys in 2025, 184 births
Given to boys 97.1% of the time
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- Peak · boys
- 2021 · 192 births
- Debut · boys
- 16 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 1,557since 1997
Kross over time
boys
Rank among boys' names. Kross has never cracked the top 1,000 here.
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
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| Year | girls | boys | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #14,942 | 5 | #1,145 | 184 |
| 2024 | #15,293 | 5 | #1,314 | 148 |
| 2023 | — | #1,140 | 184 | |
| 2022 | #8,542 | 12 | #1,099 | 195 |
| 2021 | #11,146 | 8 | #1,092 | 192 |
| 2020 | #9,546 | 10 | #1,095 | 181 |
| 2019 | #12,448 | 7 | #1,420 | 123 |
| 2018 | — | #4,610 | 21 | |
| 2017 | — | #6,338 | 13 | |
| 2016 | — | #3,990 | 26 | |
| 2015 | — | #5,058 | 18 | |
| 2014 | — | #4,866 | 19 | |
| 2013 | — | #4,180 | 23 | |
| 2012 | — | #6,626 | 12 | |
| 2011 | — | #6,256 | 13 | |
| 2010 | — | #5,478 | 16 | |
| 2009 | — | #5,554 | 16 | |
| 2008 | — | #5,767 | 15 | |
| 2007 | — | #5,901 | 14 | |
| 2006 | — | #6,094 | 13 | |
| 2005 | — | #6,634 | 11 | |
| 2004 | — | #4,602 | 18 | |
| 2003 | — | #6,715 | 10 | |
| 2002 | — | #6,522 | 10 | |
| 2001 | — | #4,676 | 16 | |
| 2000 | — | #8,209 | 7 | |
| 1999 | — | #3,704 | 20 | |
| 1998 | — | #3,296 | 23 | |
| 1997 | — | #4,059 | 16 | |
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First appearance
1997
The first year at least five boys were named Kross! It came in at #4,059, and was given to 16 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 2000, when fewer than 8 boys a year got the name.
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Momentum · boys
Holding steady
- 169 spots since 2024 (#1,314 → #1,145)
- 50 spots since 2020 (#1,095 → #1,145)
- 3,913 spots since 2015 (#5,058 → #1,145)
Rise & fade · boys
24 yrs to peak
- Debuted 1997
- Peaked 2021 at #1,092 (192 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
Top of the charts · boys
Never in the top 1,000
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
Share of babies · boys
1 in 8,954
- Highest: 1 in 8,954 boys born in 2022 were named Kross (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 9,283 boys born in 2025 (0.01%)
- Its best rank, #1,092 in 2021, was only 1 in 9,112 (0.01%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
Era · boys
The 2020s
- 69.6% of all boys named Kross (1,084) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1990s | 59 | #3,296 (1998) | #3,686 |
| 2000s | 130 | #4,602 (2004) | #6,067 |
| 2010s | 284 | #1,420 (2019) | #4,882 |
| 2020s | 1,084 | #1,092 (2021) | #1,148 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
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