girls:
32 births since 2009
#5684 (1st percentile)
boys:
136 births since 2010
#4450 (3rd percentile)
overall:
168 births since 2009
#7571 (2nd percentile)
The name Krosby is the #7,571 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 168 recorded births since 2009. This represents the 2.1% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 2.1% of all names). For boys, it ranks #4,450 (2.9% percentile) for all time with 136 births since 2010. For girls, it ranks #5,684 (0.5% percentile) for all time with 32 births since 2009.
Krosby first appeared in U.S. birth records in 2009 (2009 for girls and 2010 for boys).
The name Krosby has been given predominantly to boys, with 81.0% of all recorded births being male. In 2023, 100.0% of babies named Krosby were boys. Interestingly, until around 2010, the name was more popular for girls (100.0% girls from 2009 to 2009), but since then it has been more commonly used for boys (83.4% boys from 2010 to 2023).
For boys, Krosby reached its peak popularity in 2015, achieving the 1.2% percentile (ranked #894) with 8 births per million. The name was most common in 2015, with 8 births per million (ranked 1.2% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 2015, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Krosby ranks #910 for boys (0.1% percentile) with 3 births per million, which is 41.9% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Krosby reached its peak popularity in 2017, achieving the 0.2% percentile (ranked #947) with 4 births per million. The name was most common in 2018, with 4 births per million (ranked 0.2% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2019.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Krosby".
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Our model has identified 3 different pronunciations for the name Krosby. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 71.9% confident that Krosby is pronounced as KRAHZ-bee, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is KRAWZ-bee, at 18.8% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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