# Crew (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/crew/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | boys |
| Origin | not recorded |
| Meaning | “weir” |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 12,580 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 12,509 / 71 (1% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 96, 1996 to 2025 |

## Etymology

From Crewe in Cheshire, Old Welsh criu (“weir”).

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 5 | 17,042 |
| 2017 | 5 | 16,425 |
| 2019 | 7 | 12,743 |
| 2020 | 12 | 8,519 |
| 2021 | 14 | 7,721 |
| 2022 | 8 | 11,438 |
| 2023 | 5 | 15,717 |
| 2024 | 5 | 15,797 |
| 2025 | 10 | 9,594 |

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 210 | 943 |
| 2012 | 294 | 773 |
| 2013 | 317 | 738 |
| 2014 | 368 | 685 |
| 2015 | 346 | 717 |
| 2016 | 335 | 731 |
| 2017 | 340 | 715 |
| 2018 | 478 | 579 |
| 2019 | 995 | 338 |
| 2020 | 1,189 | 284 |
| 2021 | 1,306 | 266 |
| 2022 | 1,357 | 254 |
| 2023 | 1,325 | 261 |
| 2024 | 1,415 | 250 |
| 2025 | 1,352 | 256 |

### England and Wales, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2014 | 6 | 2,964 |
| 2018 | 3 | 4,749 |
| 2019 | 5 | 3,411 |
| 2020 | 5 | 3,334 |
| 2021 | 17 | 1,448 |
| 2022 | 14 | 1,692 |
| 2023 | 8 | 2,546 |
| 2024 | 17 | 1,517 |
| 2025 | 21 | 1,307 |

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.