Crue

A boys’ name with no widely documented etymology — one syllable, given to 23 babies a year in England and Wales.

Babies a year
23
England and Wales, 2025
Rarity
Rare
among names in use
US popularity
#797
down from #629
UK popularity
#1226
23 babies

How Crue has moved

US popularity rank, 2022–2025. Lower is more popular.
#558#749#939202220242025#797

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YearUS rank
2022#868
2023#729
2024#629
2025#797

Crue by the numbers

In 2025, 23 babies in England and Wales were named Crue. In the US, 55 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 England and Wales than in the US.

Its American peak was 70 babies in 2015, making it a 2010s name.

What we can tell you about Crue

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 Crue. Close spellings are not always related names, but they are usually worth seeing together.

  • Cruzcross258 in England and Wales (2025)
  • Creea Native American people and language23 in England and Wales (2025)
  • Cruzecross; a modern respelling of Cruz34 in England and Wales (2025)
  • Cru64 in the US (2017)

Sounds like Crue

Names that are said the same way as Crue, however they are written. Sounding alike does not mean they share a history.

  • Crewincrease or growth; a group of people344 in the US (2017)
  • Crewefrom a place name, possibly related to crew or crook5 in England and Wales (2025)
  • Krew172 in the US (2017)
  • Krue29 in the US (2017)
  • Kru12 in the US (2017)
  • Krewe5 in the US (2017)

Names about as common as Crue

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