Cruz

Popularity, 1880–2025

girls named Cruz boys named Cruz

Girls and boys called Cruz

years more girls than boys years more boys than girls

Cruz crossed from girls to boys in 1924, and has stayed there for 12 of the years counted since. At its furthest it was 63% boys, and in 2025 it was 99%.

The girls’ share of each year’s babies of the name, in the 116 years in which at least 25 babies got it. The line touches the middle more often than there are crossings marked: a year or two on the other side is not a name changing hands, and only a move that holds for 5 counted years and reaches 60/40 is recorded as one. All 581 names that changed sex.

By the numbers

Total US births

35,024

Estimated living today

30,000

Median age today

13

Peak year

2013

Best rank

279th

Rank in 2025

331st

First recorded

1880

Girls / boys

4,232 / 30,792

How old the living Cruzes are

born that year still alive today

Of the 35,024 babies given the name since 1880, about 30,000 are alive — 87 in every hundred. Roughly 19,000 of them are children and 1,900 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2012 and half after.

An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.

Notable Cruzs

• Juan Cruz Sol (1947–2020)Spanish footballer
• Cruz e Sousa (1861–1898)Brazilian poet and journalist

People named Cruz with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Where Cruz is most common

• TX7,865
• CA7,735
• AZ1,638
• NM842
• FL819
• IL816
• WA743
• CO709
• OH684
• MI629

Relative to how many babies each state records, Cruz is most concentrated in New Mexico (5.0×), Arizona (4.2×), Nevada (3.5×), Texas (3.3×).

Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.

Names of 2013

The most popular boys’ names the year Cruz peaked:

• Noah
• Jacob
• Liam
• Mason
• William
• Ethan

All the names of 2013

Cruz elsewhere

Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.

Cruz: births by region

Parts of a country counted above, not extra births. The share is what makes the regions comparable: they differ in size by a factor of three hundred.

Cruz: rank by region

In 2024, Cruz was given 5 times or more in 1 region of Belgium.

Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Belgium below 5 children – and published nothing after. So a region missing here is one where the name fell outside what was published, not one where it went unused. Places are shared where names tie, and the further down a list a place is, the more names can share it.

Cruz among the living

How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.

A count of people on a register – Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.

Where Cruz lives in Spain

Not a count of births but of people: 857 men called Cruz and 1,027 women called Cruz were living in Spain on 1 January 2025, of every age, born in any year. Where they live is not spread evenly.

Men: the provinces where it is densest

Listed in 30 of Spain's 52 provinces. In the other 22 it is either held by fewer than 5 people – the point below which the source withholds a name – or it fell past the 5,000 names the source will print for one province. Neither means nobody there is called it. The rate is the source's own, not a share worked out here.

Women: the provinces where it is densest

Listed in 42 of Spain's 52 provinces. In the other 10 it is either held by fewer than 5 people – the point below which the source withholds a name – or it fell past the 5,000 names the source will print for one province. Neither means nobody there is called it. The rate is the source's own, not a share worked out here.

Related names

• Crue
• Cru
• Cruze

Cruz against another name

Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.

• Cruz vs Crue
• Cruz vs Cru
• Cruz vs Cruze

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