girls:
4.2k births since 1890
#2653 (54th percentile)
boys:
28.6k births since 1880
#682 (85th percentile)
overall:
32.8k births since 1880
#1395 (82nd percentile)
The name Cruz is the #1,395 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 32,833 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 82.0% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 82.0% of all names). For boys, it ranks #682 (85.1% percentile) for all time with 28,633 births since 1880. For girls, it ranks #2,653 (53.6% percentile) for all time with 4,200 births since 1890.
Cruz has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880 (since 1880 for boys and since 1890 for girls). Birth data for Cruz is available in 130 out of the 144 years between 1880 and 2023 (128 years for girls and 121 years for boys). 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 Cruz has been given predominantly to boys, with 87.2% of all recorded births being male. In 2023, 98.2% of babies named Cruz were boys.
For boys, Cruz reached its peak popularity in 2012, achieving the 69.7% percentile (ranked #273) with 607 births per million. The name was most common in 2013, with 618 births per million (ranked 69.2% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2019, the popularity of this name for boys has been increasing. Currently, Cruz ranks #311 for boys (65.9% percentile) with 553 births per million, which is 89.4% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Cruz reached its peak popularity in 1923, achieving the 13.0% percentile (ranked #531) with 67 births per million. The name was most common in 1923, with 67 births per million (ranked 13.0% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2020, the popularity of this name for girls has been increasing. Currently, Cruz ranks #933 for girls (1.5% percentile) with 11 births per million, which is 16.2% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Cruz".
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Our model found one way to pronounce the name Cruz. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 100.0% confident that Cruz is pronounced as kruez, which has 1 syllables.
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