Cruz
Cruz is ranked 303rd among boys in 2024 (1,110 births). Its best rank was 279th, in 2013.
- Rank in 2024
- #303up 26 from 2023
- Births in 2024
- 1,1100.06% of boys
- Peak year
- 20131,250 births
- Best rank
- #279in 2013
- Since 1880
- 33,972people given the name
The story in the numbers
29,755 boys have been named Cruz in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 2013, with 1,250 births.
This is a comeback. After an early peak the name fell to a fraction of its former share, and it has been climbing again for the past decade.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 2011, and the 2010s alone account for 37%. It has spent 108 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
It is overwhelmingly a boy’s name: 4,217 girls have also been given it, 12% of the total.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
| Decade | boys named Cruz | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 6 | |
| 1900s | 42 | |
| 1910s | 296 | |
| 1920s | 733 | |
| 1930s | 655 | |
| 1940s | 730 | |
| 1950s | 833 | |
| 1960s | 759 | |
| 1970s | 788 | |
| 1980s | 1,299 | |
| 1990s | 2,125 | |
| 2000s | 5,107 | |
| 2010s | 10,979 | |
| 2020s | 5,403 |
In 2013, its biggest year
Cruz was the 279th most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 2013 were Noah, Jacob, Liam, Mason and William. See all of 2013.
Names that rose and fell with Cruz
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Laytonpeak 2015
- Nolanpeak 2015
- Rylandpeak 2013
- Farispeak 2017
- Tituspeak 2015
- Carverpeak 2018
- Viktorpeak 2018
- Reevepeak 2016
Other spellings in the data
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.