girls:
11 births since 2017
#5705 (0th percentile)
boys:
1.1k births since 1987
#3528 (23rd percentile)
overall:
1.1k births since 1987
#6660 (14th percentile)
The name Croix is the #6,660 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 1,079 recorded births since 1987. This represents the 13.9% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 13.9% of all names). For boys, it ranks #3,528 (23.0% percentile) for all time with 1,068 births since 1987. For girls, it ranks #5,705 (0.2% percentile) for all time with 11 births since 2017.
Croix first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1987 (1987 for boys and 2017 for girls). Birth data for Croix is available in 33 out of the 37 years between 1987 and 2023 (33 years for boys and 2 years for girls). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Croix has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 99.0% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Croix reached its peak popularity in 2019, achieving the 9.1% percentile (ranked #834) with 46 births per million. The name was most common in 2019, with 46 births per million (ranked 9.1% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 2021, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Croix ranks #861 for boys (5.5% percentile) with 30 births per million, which is 65.6% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Croix reached its peak popularity in 2017, achieving the 0.1% percentile (ranked #948) with 3 births per million. The name was most common in 2017, with 3 births per million (ranked 0.1% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2022.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Croix".
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Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Croix. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 64.3% confident that Croix is pronounced as kroy, which has 1 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is krwah, at 35.7% confidence, with 1 syllables.
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