Cross
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Cross is a boys' name of English origin, meaning “cross”. In 2025 it ranked 1,959th for boys in the US (78 babies).
What does Cross mean?
English: English word and surname
“cross”
An English surname for someone who lived by a roadside or market cross; also a Christian word name.
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Is Cross a girl's or a boy's name?
Cross is a boys' name. In 2025, it was given to 6 girls and 78 boys in the US.
How popular is Cross in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- #1,959among boys
- Babies in 2025
- 78about 1 in 22,000 boys
- Five-year trend
- Risingup 38% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1%chance among 15 boys
In 2025, 78 boys in the US were named Cross, making it the 1,959th most popular name for boys. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 2,212th. It first appears in the records in 1997. 6 girls were also named Cross in 2025 (13,203rd for girls).
2025 had the most boys named Cross of any year since it first appeared, in 1997.
Half of all the boys named Cross in the US since 1880 were born between 2003 and 2020, the years shaded on the chart below.
In 2025, 262 boys in the US were given Cross or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #838, up from #1,959 for this spelling alone.
- Kross 184
- Cross 78
Cross in the US, year by year
| Year | Boys | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 78 | #1,959 |
| 2024 | 56 | #2,444 |
| 2023 | 64 | #2,220 |
| 2022 | 62 | #2,298 |
| 2021 | 76 | #1,963 |
| 2020 | 62 | #2,212 |
| 2019 | 50 | #2,581 |
| 2018 | 32 | #3,442 |
| 2017 | 35 | #3,248 |
| 2016 | 28 | #3,775 |
| 2015 | 37 | #3,084 |
| 2014 | 44 | #2,703 |
| 2013 | 44 | #2,666 |
| 2012 | 25 | #4,000 |
| 2011 | 27 | #3,790 |
| 2010 | 35 | #3,180 |
| 2009 | 52 | #2,450 |
| 2008 | 40 | #2,945 |
| 2007 | 44 | #2,721 |
| 2006 | 33 | #3,225 |
| 2005 | 49 | #2,361 |
| 2004 | 49 | #2,312 |
| 2003 | 51 | #2,149 |
| 2002 | 48 | #2,191 |
| 2001 | 61 | #1,812 |
| 2000 | 43 | #2,252 |
| 1999 | 44 | #2,137 |
| 1998 | 63 | #1,639 |
| 1997 | 43 | #2,057 |
Names like Cross
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
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Other spellings of Cross
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