Krew

What Krew means

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

Editor’s note Climbing fast in the US: #1,463 in 2015, #599 in 2025 Worked out from the official US and England & Wales counts, not a meaning.

How popular is Krew?

US: Rising: up from #1463 in 2015. England & Wales: New in the last 10 years.

Biggest US share so far: 2024, when 491 boys got the name (#580 that year). First in the US records in 2000.

How common

• About 1 in 3,588 baby boys in the US in 2025
• About 1 in 54,387 baby boys in England and Wales 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 SD (1.56 per 1,000 boys), IA (1.37 per 1,000 boys), UT (1.32 per 1,000 boys) in 2025.

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

US vs UK

Krew is #599 in the US and #3684 in England & Wales (2025).

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

Boy or girl?

In 2025, 99.9+% of US babies named Krew were boys.

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

Other spellings

Other spellings parents chose in 2025

• Crew1,352 US · 21 E&W
• Grey222 US · 13 E&W
• Kru77 US
• Cree39 US · 23 E&W
• Kroi22 US · 17 E&W
• Kree35 US · 4 E&W
• Kyre16 US
• Crow7 US

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 Krew

Boys

• Axel#79Editor’s note Up from #123 in 2015 to #79 in 2025 in the US. About 1 in 410 US boys in the 2025 records
• Beckham#168“homestead”^*
• Luca#14Form of Lucy, meaning “light”^*
• Zayden#213Editor’s note First shows up in US records in 2000, with 11 babies
• Julian#25“Roman personal name”^*
• Emiliano#94Editor’s note More popular in the US than England & Wales: #94 vs #1,359 in 2025

For a sister

• Eden#70possibly “steppe, garden”^*
• Leilani#60Hawaiian, meaning “a lei; a child + heavenly, royal”^*
• Eliana#10Editor’s note Climbing fast in the US: #102 in 2015, #10 in 2025. 6 letters, starting with a vowel
• Lia#200Latin, meaning “cow”^*
• Lucy#24“light”^*
• Evelyn#8Same root as Eileen, possibly meaning “radiance, beauty”^*

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 Krew’s. Place names are only included if they are in the top 300. Rank is US 2025.