Crue

What Crue means

Meaning not yet sourced. Wiktionary has no word-by-word meaning for Crue yet, and we don’t write our own.

Editor’s note Climbing fast in the US: #2,036 in 2015, #797 in 2025 Worked out from the official US and England & Wales counts, not a meaning.

How popular is Crue?

US: Rising: up from #2036 in 2015. England & Wales: Rising: up from #4747 in 2015.

Biggest US share so far: 2024, when 446 boys got the name (#629 that year). First in the US records in 1988.

How common

• About 1 in 5,440 baby boys in the US in 2025
• About 1 in 11,823 baby boys in England and Wales in 2025
• About 1 in 1,964 baby boys in Scotland in 2025

“1 in N” divides by all listed births for that sex. The US list leaves out names given to fewer than 5 babies, and the UK lists leave out names given to 2 or fewer, so the real figure is a little rarer than shown.

Where in the US

Most popular in IA (1.37 per 1,000 boys), KY (0.54 per 1,000 boys), IN (0.47 per 1,000 boys) in 2025.

SSA state data, 2025. Share of all listed boys born in each state.

US vs UK

Crue is #797 in the US and #1226 in England & Wales (2025).

Same sex as this page (boys). SSA (US), ONS (England and Wales), NRS (Scotland).

Boy or girl?

In 2025, 98.4% of US babies named Crue were boys.

Counts below the publishing threshold (US 5, UK 3) are not included.

Other spellings

Other spellings parents chose in 2025

• Krue251 US · 4 E&W

Names that sound the same and differ by a letter or two, with baby counts for the same sex. US and E&W counts.

If you like Crue

Boys

• Kash#286Editor’s note Up from #382 in 2015 to #286 in 2025 in the US
• Ace#164Editor’s note Climbing fast in the US: #419 in 2015, #164 in 2025
• Charlie#145Editor’s note More popular in England & Wales than the US: #22 vs #145 in 2025
• Oliver#3Editor’s note Up from #19 in 2015 to #3 in 2025 in the US. About 1 in 110 US boys in the 2025 records
• Emerson#254Editor’s note Up from #300 in 2015 to #254 in 2025 in the US
• Santiago#26Spanish form of James, meaning “May He Heel”^*

For a sister

• Olive#197Editor’s note More popular in England & Wales than the US: #47 vs #197 in 2025
• Violet#13From the word “violet”^*
• Ayla#77Editor’s note First shows up in US records in 1963, with 6 babies
• Evangeline#147“good news”^*
• Ada#219“noble”^*
• Lucia#83Variant of Lucy, meaning “light”^*

Picked from the US top 1,000 in 2025: names Wiktionary also files under where there are enough, topped up with common names whose US popularity since 1990 rose and fell most like Crue’s. Place names are only included if they are in the top 300. Rank is US 2025.