Cruise
- Gender
- Boy
- Say it
- KROOZ
- Origin
- English
- US rank, 2025
- #8,239 for boys
Cruise is a boys' name of English origin, meaning “pleasure voyage”. In 2025 it ranked 8,239th for boys in the US (9 babies).
What does Cruise mean?
English: English word, from Dutch kruisen 'to cross'; also a surname
“pleasure voyage”
The actor Tom Cruise was born Thomas Cruise Mapother IV.
Is Cruise a girl's or a boy's name?
Cruise is a boys' name. In 2025, it was given to 9 boys in the US. Too few girls were given it to be listed.
How popular is Cruise in the UK?
No boys in the UK were given it in 2025, or too few to be listed. Its busiest year was 2023, with 7 boys.
Cruise in the UK, year by year
| Year | Boys | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 7 | #2,965 |
| 2022 | 0 | – |
| 2021 | 3 | #4,989 |
| 2020 | 4 | #4,025 |
| 2019 | 0 | – |
| 2018 | 0 | – |
| 2017 | 0 | – |
| 2016 | 0 | – |
| 2015 | 0 | – |
| 2014 | 1 | #6,179 |
| 2013 | 3 | #4,884 |
| 2012 | 0 | – |
| 2011 | 1 | #6,218 |
| 2010 | 0 | – |
| 2009 | 3 | #4,691 |
| 2008 | 1 | #5,936 |
How popular is Cruise in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- 8,239th among boys
- Babies in 2025
- 9 about 1 in 190,000 boys
- Five-year trend
- Rising up 79% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 boys
In 2025, 9 boys in the US were named Cruise, making it the 8,239th most popular name for boys. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 5,695th. Its busiest year was 2023, with 26 boys. It first appears in the records in 1987.
2025 had fewer boys named Cruise than any year since 2018.
Half of all the boys named Cruise in the US since 1880 were born between 2003 and 2017, the years shaded on the chart below.
In 2025, 1,279 boys in the US were given Cruise or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #283, up from #8,239 for this spelling alone.
Cruise in the US, year by year
| Year | Boys | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 9 | #8,239 |
| 2024 | 15 | #5,899 |
| 2023 | 26 | #4,109 |
| 2022 | 10 | #7,762 |
| 2021 | 13 | #6,330 |
| 2020 | 15 | #5,695 |
| 2019 | 13 | #6,401 |
| 2018 | 0 | – |
| 2017 | 11 | #7,091 |
| 2016 | 12 | #6,721 |
| 2015 | 15 | #5,742 |
| 2014 | 19 | #4,862 |
| 2013 | 17 | #5,167 |
| 2012 | 18 | #5,030 |
| 2011 | 11 | #7,002 |
| 2010 | 22 | #4,365 |
| 2009 | 15 | #5,796 |
| 2008 | 14 | #6,065 |
| 2007 | 16 | #5,431 |
| 2006 | 10 | #7,422 |
| 2005 | 15 | #5,273 |
| 2004 | 8 | #8,137 |
| 2003 | 12 | #5,870 |
| 2002 | 0 | – |
| 2001 | 8 | #7,529 |
| 2000 | 9 | #6,832 |
| 1999 | 0 | – |
| 1998 | 5 | #9,623 |
| 1997 | 9 | #6,094 |
| 1996 | 0 | – |
| 1995 | 0 | – |
| 1994 | 6 | #7,764 |
| 1993 | 0 | – |
| 1992 | 5 | #8,426 |
| 1991 | 5 | #8,228 |
| 1990 | 7 | #6,408 |
| 1989 | 12 | #4,265 |
| 1988 | 11 | #4,157 |
| 1987 | 19 | #2,721 |
Names like Cruise
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Cruz, Crue, Luca, Cooper, Perez, Cove, Jude, Iago, Ezra, Lorcan, Rio, Thiago
Other spellings of Cruise
Names related to Cruise
More English names
Lily, Evelyn, Hudson, Ivy, Harper, Grace, Violet, Willow, Daisy, Poppy, Riley, Oakley, Mason, Ruby, Hallie, Hazel
Sources
Figures from Baby names in England and Wales (Office for National Statistics), Babies' first names (National Records of Scotland), Baby names (Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency) and Popular Baby Names (US Social Security Administration). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.
To cite this page: Nameling, “Cruise: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/cruise, updated 20 October 2026.