Kruze
- Gender
- Boy
- Say it
- KROOZ
- Origin
- Spanish
- UK rank, 2025
- #2,511 for boys
- US rank, 2025
- #3,657 for boys
Kruze is a boys' name of Spanish origin, meaning “cross”. In 2025 it ranked 2,511th for boys in the UK (9 babies) and 3,657th for boys in the US (30 babies).
What does Kruze mean?
Spanish: spelling of Cruz
“cross”
A respelling of Cruz, the Spanish word for cross.
Is Kruze a girl's or a boy's name?
Kruze is a boys' name. In 2025, it was given to 9 boys in the UK and 30 boys in the US. Too few girls were given it to be listed.
How popular is Kruze in the UK?
- Rank in 2025
- 2,511th among boys
- Babies in 2025
- 9 about 1 in 33,000 boys
- Five-year trend
- Steady down 10% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 boys
In 2025, 9 boys in the UK were named Kruze, making it the 2,511th most popular name for boys. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 2,052nd. Its busiest year was 2020, with 11 boys.
2025 had more boys named Kruze than any year since 2020.
Half of all the boys named Kruze in the UK since 1996 were born between 2018 and 2023, the years shaded on the chart below.
In 2025, 376 boys in the UK were given Kruze or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #173, up from #2,511 for this spelling alone.
Among boys in 2025, it was 2,436th in England and Wales.
Kruze in the UK, year by year
| Year | Boys | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 9 | #2,511 |
| 2024 | 3 | #5,198 |
| 2023 | 6 | #3,279 |
| 2022 | 3 | #5,017 |
| 2021 | 6 | #3,179 |
| 2020 | 11 | #2,052 |
| 2019 | 5 | #3,597 |
| 2018 | 4 | #4,169 |
| 2017 | 7 | #2,875 |
| 2016 | 1 | #6,416 |
| 2015 | 0 | – |
| 2014 | 4 | #4,063 |
| 2013 | 0 | – |
| 2012 | 0 | – |
| 2011 | 0 | – |
| 2010 | 1 | #6,148 |
| 2009 | 0 | – |
| 2008 | 0 | – |
| 2007 | 0 | – |
| 2006 | 1 | #5,377 |
How popular is Kruze in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- 3,657th among boys
- Babies in 2025
- 30 about 1 in 57,000 boys
- Five-year trend
- Steady down 8% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 boys
In 2025, 30 boys in the US were named Kruze, making it the 3,657th most popular name for boys. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 3,272nd. Its busiest year was 2019, with 49 boys. It first appears in the records in 2007.
2025 had fewer boys named Kruze than any year since 2012.
Half of all the boys named Kruze in the US since 1880 were born between 2014 and 2021, the years shaded on the chart below.
In 2025, 1,279 boys in the US were given Kruze or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #283, up from #3,657 for this spelling alone.
Kruze in the US, year by year
| Year | Boys | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 30 | #3,657 |
| 2024 | 34 | #3,392 |
| 2023 | 41 | #3,004 |
| 2022 | 37 | #3,214 |
| 2021 | 43 | #2,861 |
| 2020 | 34 | #3,272 |
| 2019 | 49 | #2,625 |
| 2018 | 31 | #3,520 |
| 2017 | 36 | #3,192 |
| 2016 | 43 | #2,782 |
| 2015 | 42 | #2,808 |
| 2014 | 47 | #2,580 |
| 2013 | 44 | #2,666 |
| 2012 | 29 | #3,622 |
| 2011 | 14 | #5,939 |
| 2010 | 13 | #6,353 |
| 2009 | 6 | #10,989 |
| 2008 | 5 | #12,546 |
| 2007 | 5 | #12,361 |
Names like Kruze
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Crue, Luca, Perez, Iago, Rio, Thiago, Lorcan, Santiago, Ezra, Jago, Rome, Arlo
Other spellings of Kruze
More Spanish names
Lola, Xavier, Amaya, Alaia, Diego, Elian, Jesus, Ximena, Javier, Esmeralda, Amayah, Reina, Cesar, Sierra, Paloma, Amaia
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, “Kruze: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/kruze, updated 20 October 2026.