Kruz
Last seen for girls in 2024 at #15,293 · #1,212 for boys in 2025, 167 births
Given to boys 97.6% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 2020 · 187 births
- Debut · boys
- 5 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 2,659since 1987
Kruz over time
Rank among boys' names. Kruz has never cracked the top 1,000 here.
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 | — | #1,212 | 167 | |
| 2024 | #15,293 | 5 | #1,271 | 155 |
| 2023 | — | #1,185 | 171 | |
| 2022 | #12,243 | 7 | #1,096 | 197 |
| 2021 | #10,292 | 9 | #1,125 | 181 |
| 2020 | #10,250 | 9 | #1,069 | 187 |
| 2019 | — | #1,218 | 156 | |
| 2018 | #12,464 | 7 | #1,219 | 153 |
| 2017 | — | #1,460 | 116 | |
| 2016 | #16,215 | 5 | #1,433 | 121 |
| 2015 | — | #1,252 | 144 | |
| 2014 | — | #1,225 | 149 | |
| 2013 | #13,150 | 7 | #1,413 | 118 |
| 2012 | #16,869 | 5 | #1,562 | 101 |
| 2011 | #16,764 | 5 | #1,459 | 112 |
| 2010 | — | #1,739 | 87 | |
| 2009 | #17,294 | 5 | #1,925 | 74 |
| 2008 | — | #2,327 | 56 | |
| 2007 | — | #3,250 | 34 | |
| 2006 | — | #3,153 | 34 | |
| 2005 | — | #5,875 | 13 | |
| 2004 | — | #5,813 | 13 | |
| 2003 | — | #4,114 | 20 | |
| 2002 | — | #6,088 | 11 | |
| 2001 | — | #6,935 | 9 | |
| 2000 | — | #10,349 | 5 | |
| 1999 | — | #7,139 | 8 | |
| 1998 | — | #9,631 | 5 | |
| 1997 | — | #4,960 | 12 | |
| 1996 | — | #7,136 | 7 | |
| 1995 | — | #7,792 | 6 | |
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| 1993 | — | #7,638 | 6 | |
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| 1991 | — | #8,236 | 5 | |
| 1990 | — | #8,117 | 5 | |
| 1989 | — | #5,615 | 8 | |
| 1988 | — | #5,200 | 8 | |
| 1987 | — | #6,951 | 5 | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Kruz! It came in at #6,951, and was given to 5 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1990–1992, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
Where Kruz is popular in 2016
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Louisiana#592 · 1 in 3,070
- Kentucky#627 · 1 in 4,362
- Indiana#799 · 1 in 5,929
- Michigan#819 · 1 in 5,968
- Missouri#838 · 1 in 6,322
Best ever in a state: #214 in Hawaii, 2025.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| Louisiana | #592 | 8 | 1 in 3,070 |
| Kentucky | #627 | 5 | 1 in 4,362 |
| Indiana | #799 | 6 | 1 in 5,929 |
| Michigan | #819 | 8 | 1 in 5,968 |
| Missouri | #838 | 5 | 1 in 6,322 |
| Washington | #847 | 6 | 1 in 6,173 |
| Illinois | #1,311 | 5 | 1 in 12,834 |
| Texas | #1,631 | 9 | 1 in 20,580 |
| California | #1,785 | 9 | 1 in 24,854 |
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See more about Kruz
- 59 spots since 2024 (#1,271 → #1,212)
- 143 spots since 2020 (#1,069 → #1,212)
- 40 spots since 2015 (#1,252 → #1,212)
- Debuted 1987
- Peaked 2020 at #1,069 (187 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 8,863 boys born in 2022 were named Kruz (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 10,228 boys born in 2025 (0.01%)
- Its best rank, #1,069 in 2020, was only 1 in 9,230 (0.01%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 47.3% of all boys named Kruz (1,257) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1980s | 21 | #5,200 (1988) | #5,922 |
| 1990s | 54 | #4,960 (1997) | #7,581 |
| 2000s | 269 | #1,925 (2009) | #4,983 |
| 2010s | 1,257 | #1,218 (2019) | #1,398 |
| 2020s | 1,058 | #1,069 (2020) | #1,160 |
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.
Kruz in 2016
Top girls' names in 2016
Top boys' names in 2016
More about 2016
girls
1,772,022 girls got a published name in 2016; 1 in 354,404 of them was named Kruz, which outranked 14.1% of the 18,885 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.3% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
Tied with 2,670 names at #16,215; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,897,738 boys got a published name in 2016; 1 in 15,684 of them was named Kruz, which outranked 89.9% of the 14,207 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.2% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #1,421Perry122
- #1,421Presley122
- #1,421Xavi122
- #1,433Kruz121
- #1,433Atharv121
- #1,433Dev121
- #1,433Emmit121
- #1,443Brigham120
- #1,443Calder120
- #1,443Deion120
Tied with 9 names at #1,433; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.