Krue
#5,410 for girls in 2025, 23 births · #935 for boys in 2025, 251 births
Given to boys 94.5% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 2024 · 247 births
- Debut · boys
- 5 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 1,540since 2006
Krue over time
Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
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| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #5,410 | 23 | #935 | 251 |
| 2024 | #4,772 | 28 | #933 | 247 |
| 2023 | #6,409 | 18 | #1,066 | 203 |
| 2022 | #10,383 | 9 | #1,168 | 175 |
| 2021 | — | #1,291 | 147 | |
| 2020 | #13,453 | 6 | #1,534 | 108 |
| 2019 | #15,539 | 5 | #1,974 | 74 |
| 2018 | — | #2,579 | 49 | |
| 2017 | — | #3,586 | 30 | |
| 2016 | — | #2,783 | 43 | |
| 2015 | — | #2,722 | 44 | |
| 2014 | — | #3,693 | 28 | |
| 2013 | — | #3,582 | 29 | |
| 2012 | — | #3,714 | 28 | |
| 2011 | — | #3,164 | 35 | |
| 2010 | — | #6,036 | 14 | |
| 2009 | — | #5,800 | 15 | |
| 2008 | — | #9,019 | 8 | |
| 2007 | — | #9,788 | 7 | |
| 2006 | — | #12,055 | 5 | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Krue! It came in at #12,055, and was given to 5 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 2006–2007, when fewer than 8 boys a year got the name.
Where Krue is popular in 2021
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
Hover or tap a state for its numbers.
- Louisiana#488 · 1 in 2,174
- Pennsylvania#781 · 1 in 5,546
- Maryland#804 · 1 in 4,990
- Georgia#965 · 1 in 6,296
- Ohio#1,002 · 1 in 7,745
Best ever in a state: #254 in West Virginia, 2025.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| Louisiana | #488 | 10 | 1 in 2,174 |
| Pennsylvania | #781 | 10 | 1 in 5,546 |
| Maryland | #804 | 5 | 1 in 4,990 |
| Georgia | #965 | 8 | 1 in 6,296 |
| Ohio | #1,002 | 7 | 1 in 7,745 |
| Illinois | #1,028 | 7 | 1 in 7,701 |
| North Carolina | #1,265 | 5 | 1 in 10,207 |
| Texas | #1,368 | 13 | 1 in 13,163 |
| California | #2,005 | 7 | 1 in 27,054 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the boys born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
See more about Krue
- 2 spots since 2024 (#933 → #935)
- 599 spots since 2020 (#1,534 → #935)
- 1,787 spots since 2015 (#2,722 → #935)
- Biggest jump: 133 spots in 2024 (#1,066 → #933)
- Biggest drop: 2 spots in 2025 (#933 → #935)
- Debuted 2006
- Peaked 2024 at #933 (247 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 2 yrs · run 2024–2025
- Highest: 1 in 6,805 boys born in 2025 were named Krue (0.01%)
- Its best rank, #933 in 2024, was only 1 in 6,975 (0.01%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 73.4% of all boys named Krue (1,131) were born in this decade
- The majority has never changed
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2000s | 35 | #5,800 (2009) | #9,166 |
| 2010s | 374 | #1,974 (2019) | #3,383 |
| 2020s | 1,131 | #933 (2024) | #1,155 |
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.
Krue in 2021
Top boys' names in 2021
More about 2021
boys
1,749,482 boys got a published name in 2021; 1 in 11,901 of them was named Krue, which outranked 90.8% of the 14,096 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.8% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #1,280Wolfgang148
- #1,280Wylie148
- #1,280Yaseen148
- #1,291Krue147
- #1,291Aydan147
- #1,291Carmine147
- #1,291Kymani147
- #1,299Jessie146
- #1,300Arham145
- #1,300Cortez145
Tied with 7 names at #1,291; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.