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Crosby vs Cross

American parents have registered 6,490 Crosbys since 1880, against 1,381 Crosses. Crosby is still ahead, with 196 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Crosby against Cross, 1880 to 2025 0 150 300 450 600 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Crosby Cross

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Of the 102 years in which either name was published, Crosby for 91 years and Cross for 11 years. The lead changed hands 2 times.

Side by side

  Crosby Cross
Total US births 6,4901,381
Most in one year 50384
Babies in 2025 19684
Estimated living today 6,2001,400
Median age today 1013
Peak year 20152025
Best rank 578th boys1,959th boys
Rank in 2025 1,235th1,959th
First recorded 19121997
Girls / boys 612 / 5,8786 / 1,375

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Crosses alive today are over 13; half the Crosbys are over 10. That is 3 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Where each one is strongest

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Crosby and Cross.