Crue
Crue was the 797th most popular name for boys in 2025, given to 314 babies. Its best year was 2024, when it ranked 629th with 446 babies. Over the last ten years it has moved up 1,240 places. More babies were named Crue in the 2020s than in any other decade.
Meaning Origin not documented
Say it KROO /kɹu/
- Rank in 2025
- #797 boys, up 370 places since 2020
- Babies in 2025
- 314boys
- Girls and boys
- Almost always a boy’s name2021–2025
- Peak year
- 2024446 babies
- Total since 1880
- 2,633babies recorded
What does the name Crue mean?
Crue has no documented etymology as a given name. It is a modern American name, recorded in SSA data for boys from the late 1980s and more widely in the 2020s. It may be a respelling of the English word crew, from Middle English crue 'reinforcement', and some parents may have the band Mötley Crüe in mind, but these are associations rather than a recorded origin. We therefore do not give it a meaning.
How sure is this? Not documented. Modern coinage; no dictionary entry for the name.
Sources for this meaning
- US Social Security Administration, national baby-name data 1880-2025 (our computation), SSA (public domain)
- Wiktionary, entry 'crew' (English section), Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0; facts restated, no text reused)
Crue popularity since 1880
A few girls are given the name too: 59 since 2020, 5 in 2025.
| Year | Rank (boys) | Babies (boys) |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | #797 | 314 |
| 2020 | #1,167 | 165 |
| 2010 | #2,881 | 41 |
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How popular is Crue, counting every spelling?
Crue is the most common spelling of a name family that ranked #538 for boys in 2025 once every spelling is counted together, compared with #797 for Crue on its own. Together these spellings went to 565 boys in 2025.
| Spelling | Babies 2025 | Official rank | Babies 2021–2025 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Crue | 314 | #797 | 1,617 |
| Krue | 251 | #937 | 1,023 |
Spellings count together when they sound the same in American English and are used for the same sex; nicknames and forms that sound different (such as Theo and Theodore) are kept apart. How we group spellings.
How many kids will share the name Crue?
314 of the 3,606,400 babies born in the US in 2025 were named Crue (0.09 per 1,000 births). For a boy named Crue born in 2025, the chance that another child with the same name is in a class of 20 children the same age is under 1 in 50. If every grade liked the name as much as the 2025 babies do, only about one elementary school in 27 (of 430 pupils) would have a child named Crue.
Shares of all registered births (NCHS); classes assumed to be children born the same year. How we estimate this.
How old are people named Crue?
About 2,600 people born in the US named Crue are alive today, with a median age of 4; half are between 2 and 8. That makes Crue a young name: most people with it are children.
Babies given the name each year (SSA) times the share of that birth year still alive (SSA life tables). Counts people born in the US only. Method.
Crue by state
How common Crue was among boys born in each state in 2021–2025. It is notably more common than nationally in South Dakota (7.5×), Iowa (4.4×), Oklahoma (2.7×), Indiana (2.6×), Kansas (2.4×). It is least common, relative to the national rate, in New Jersey, Virginia, New York.
Names with a similar history
These names rose and fell in step with Crue: their share of US boys followed the most similar curve since 1880. If you like Crue, they share its era and feel.
Middle names for Crue · Sibling names for Crue
Questions about the name Crue
How popular is the name Crue?
Crue was the 797th most popular name for boys in 2025, given to 314 babies. Its best year was 2024, when it ranked 629th with 446 babies. Over the last ten years it has moved up 1,240 places. More babies were named Crue in the 2020s than in any other decade.
Is Crue a boy or girl name?
In 2021–2025, almost always a boy’s name given the name Crue in the US.
Where is Crue most popular?
In 2021–2025, Crue was most common in South Dakota (1.40 per 1,000 boys), followed by Iowa and Oklahoma.