Name Trends

See the popularity of first names over time in the USA

How popular is “Cru” in the USA?

Number of people named “Cru” by birth year

This chart shows how many people named “Cru” were born each year.

Due to changes to population growth and data collection rates over time, this isn't a good chart for understanding popularity.

Popularity of “Cru” by birth year

This chart shows how the popularity of “Cru” has changed over time.

Popularity is the number of people named “Cru” born in that year divided by the total number of births for that year.

Bias in sex for “Cru” by birth year

This chart shows how “Cru” has been used as gendered name over time. The scale ranges from 1 (only females) to -1 (only males).

Sex is a required field in SSA's Social Security Card applications (only 2 options). Most applications are filed around a person's time of birth.

The raw data

This table shows the data used in the above charts.

Year Count Proportion Females Males Bias toward female
1990 6 0.000001518 6 -100%
2000 5 0.000001323 5 -100%
2002 6 0.000001605 6 -100%
2004 7 0.000001832 7 -100%
2005 12 0.000003121 12 -100%
2006 17 0.000004297 17 -100%
2007 15 0.000003752 15 -100%
2008 33 0.000008396 33 -100%
2009 37 0.000009685 37 -100%
2010 38 0.000010282 38 -100%
2011 58 0.000015857 58 -100%
2012 48 0.000013124 48 -100%
2013 55 0.000015086 55 -100%
2014 63 0.000016998 63 -100%
2015 65 0.000017563 65 -100%
2016 78 0.000021261 78 -100%
2017 64 0.000017896 64 -100%
2018 90 0.000025598 90 -100%
2019 117 0.000033709 5 112 -91%
2020 126 0.000037718 5 121 -92%
2021 142 0.000041913 7 135 -90%
2022 141 0.000041677 141 -100%
2023 119 0.000035939 9 110 -85%
2024 140 0.000042061 8 132 -89%

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