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Krimson

Gender
Mostly girls
Say it
KRIM-zun
Origin
English
US rank, 2025
#10,913 for girls

Krimson is a name of English origin, meaning “deep red”. In 2025 it ranked 10,913th for girls in the US (8 babies).

What does Krimson mean?

English: creative spelling of the colour word crimson

“deep red”

A creative spelling of the colour crimson, a word that reached English from Arabic qirmiz via Spanish.

Is Krimson a girl's or a boy's name?

In recent years, Krimson has been given to girls and boys, mostly girls. In 2025, it was given to 8 girls in the US.

How popular is Krimson in the US?

Rank in 2025
10,913th among girls
Babies in 2025
8 about 1 in 200,000 girls
Five-year trend
Too rare to call too few babies to tell
Same name in a class
under 1% chance among 15 girls

In 2025, 8 girls in the US were named Krimson, making it the 10,913th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 13,448th. Its busiest year was 2016, with 16 girls. It first appears in the records in 2000.

Half of all the girls named Krimson in the US since 1880 were born between 2011 and 2018, the years shaded on the chart below.

2000Busiest: 16 in 20162025
Krimson in the US, year by year
YearGirlsRank
20258#10,913
20240–
20236#13,456
20225#15,300
20219#10,287
20206#13,448
201913#8,134
201816#7,096
201711#9,337
201616#7,227
201514#8,004
201413#8,480
20136#14,577
20129#11,251
201112#9,146
201012#9,227
20097#13,698
20085#17,498
20076#15,485
20060–
20050–
20045#16,092
20030–
20026#13,589
20010–
20005#15,024

Names like Krimson

Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.

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Sources

Figures from 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, “Krimson: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/krimson, updated 20 October 2026.