Crosby
Feminine · “village with a cross”
Crosby is given to both — 612 girls and 5,878 boys since 1880. See Crosby as a boy nameSee other names given to both
Crosby is a Norse place name — the village with the cross — and it marks where Viking settlers in England had already become Christian.
How old is the name Crosby?
Crosby first appears in US birth records in 1984 — 41 years ago. The typical Crosby is a kid of about 9 — this name's wave is very recent. About 600 people named Crosby are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Crosby most popular?
Crosby peaked in 2021, reaching #3553 nationally. Today it ranks #4172, 619 places below that high. See the whole 2021 chart.
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Where it comes from
From kross byr to Crosby
The story of Crosby
The -by ending is one of the clearest maps of the Danelaw: wherever it appears, Norse speakers settled, and the density of them across Yorkshire and Lincolnshire is striking. Crosby means the settlement with a cross, so the Norse who named it were using a Christian marker. The surname reached America and its use as a given name is recent, following a singer and a hockey player.
Meaning
village with a cross
From Old Norse kross, a cross, and byr, a farmstead or village; the -by ending marks Danish settlement across northern and eastern England and appears in hundreds of place names there.
How the name formed
- kross byr
- Crosby
Related forms: Krossbyr · Korsby
Pronouncing Crosby
KROZ-bee
Two syllables, first stressed. There is no variation in English.
Nicknames for Crosby
Moderate
What the data says
146 years of official birth records
The long climb, and where it stands now
The same years in position rather than babies
- First recorded
- 1984
- Most girls named
- 202143 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #3553reached in 2021
- Change vs 2024
- −15.0%34 in 2025, from 40
Rank is a position, a count is a headcount, and they move independently — a name can hold its rank while the number of babies behind it falls. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration.
Crosby in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Krossbyr in Old Norse — same name
- Korsby in Danish — related form
Strongest US states over the last decade: Texas.
Crosbys among us
people named Crosby are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 girl in 47,273 born in 2025 was named Crosby
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Spellings of Crosby
- #4172
- Crosby on the 2025 chart
- #921
- counting every spelling
The SSA counts spellings, not names. Crosby went to 34 girls in 2025, but Krosby is the same name said out loud. Together the 2 spellings went to 39, which makes it the 921st most-given girls’ name of the year — 3,251 places above the chart.
- Crosby34
- Krosby5
About 1 girl in 41,212 born in 2025 was given one of these spellings — against 1 in 47,273 for Crosby itself.
Spellings are grouped by a fixed rule that folds interchangeable English spellings of one sound (ck/k, ph/f, x/ks, a non-initial y for i) and keeps vowels apart, so Sean and Shawn stay separate names. It errs towards splitting: a family here is never larger than the truth. SSA national data, 2025. Method
Is it right for you
What happens to a name after it peaks
The Jameela test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Crosby's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Jameela climbed just as high around 1986, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Jameela's path sketches the road Crosby is walking now.
Crosby sits in the calm middle of the cycle — neither chasing a wave nor sliding off one. Middle-of-the-cycle names age slowly and predictably.
A scored estimate from 146 years of naming cycles — not a prophecy. Great names outlive statistics. How this is scored
Where Crosby is headed
Crosby should hold steady through 2030 — the curve is flat, and flat curves are the most predictable kind. Its history is short or jumpy, though, so read this as a sketch rather than a promise.
Low confidence — fitted on official counts through 2025.
A damped-trend projection of the official birth data — a sketch of momentum, not a promise. Every name's forecast, ranked.
Crosby beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Crosby in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US girls given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- A settled place-name meaning that maps a real historical settlement.
- Read correctly on sight by every English speaker.
- Six letters and two syllables, quick to write.
- It reads as a surname to people meeting it in front of another one.
- It is used for both sexes, so forms may guess wrong.
- A mid-century singer and a hockey player are both strong associations.
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Frequently asked
- How many Crosbys are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 600 people named Crosby are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How do you spell Crosby?
- Crosby is the most-used spelling in US records — 34 of the 39 babies given the name in 2025. The others recorded are Krosby.
- How popular is the name Crosby in 2025?
- Crosby ranks #4172 among US girl names in 2025, with 34 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Crosby?
- About 1 in every 47,273 US girls born in 2025 was named Crosby — 34 in all.
- Will my child share the name Crosby with classmates?
- Crosby will almost certainly be the only one in school.
Ranked beside Crosby
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