Cru
A boys’ name with no widely documented etymology — one syllable, given to 64 babies a year in the US.
Cru by the numbers
In 2025, 4 babies in England and Wales were named Cru. In the US, 64 were, though that figure is from 2017, the most recent full year we hold.
For the size of the two countries, it is given noticeably more often in the US than in England and Wales.
Its American peak was 78 babies in 2016, making it a 2010s name.
What we can tell you about Cru
Not every name has a meaning to trace. Plenty are coined rather than inherited — invented outright, blended from two names, or respelled from an older one — and where we cannot find an etymology we can stand behind, we would rather say so than make one up. What follows comes from the birth records themselves.
Spelled almost the same
Other names in the records within a letter or two of Cru. Close spellings are not always related names, but they are usually worth seeing together.
Sounds like Cru
Names that are said the same way as Cru, however they are written. Sounding alike does not mean they share a history.