Fun Facts About the Name Crew
- More than 12 thousand babies named Crew: U.S. records list 12,576 babies given the name Crew from 1880 through 2025. Even 71 girls received the name Crew - about 1 girl for every 176 boys.
What Does the Name Crew Mean?
Crew is an English word name meaning "a group of people working together," especially the company that sails and works a ship. It comes directly from the English noun crew, and its earlier history belongs to that word rather than to a personal name. In Middle English, crewe first meant a reinforcement or supplement - an extra body of troops - and only later came to mean the company of a ship and, by extension, any organized group of workers. The Middle English form was borrowed from Old French creue ("increase, reinforcement"), a noun from the verb croistre ("to grow"), which descends from Latin crescere ("to grow"). The literal sense "increase" therefore stands behind the modern sense of a group added to an existing force. The personal name is also linked to the English surname Crew, which is commonly explained as a habitational name from Crewe in Cheshire, a derivation separate from the common noun.
Crew Name History & Origins
The word crew is recorded in Middle English as crewe, taken from Old French creue. Its oldest English sense was military: a body of reinforcements sent to strengthen an army. From that idea of a company of people, English speakers extended the word to the company that sails and works a ship, a use established by the early modern period, and later to the team that operates an aircraft or works on a film set.
Crew as a first name is a recent development, distinct from the long history of the noun and the surname. It belongs chiefly to the United States and to the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries, a period when English words and surnames became common sources for first names. Because the given name is young, it carries no medieval, biblical, or saint's tradition, and it remains uncommon as a personal name in other English-speaking countries.
How Popular is the Name Crew?
Crew recorded its highest annual U.S. birth count in 2024. Its best rank was #250 in 2024.
U.S. name popularity from 1880-2025, based on SSA data. Rank shows how the name compares with other names - lower numbers mean greater popularity. Births shows how many babies received the name each year.
| Year | Rank | Births | % |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | #9,594 | 10 | 0.0006% |
| 2024 | #15,748 | 5 | 0.0003% |
| 2023 | #15,704 | 5 | 0.0003% |
| 2022 | #11,432 | 8 | 0.0005% |
| 2021 | #7,713 | 14 | 0.0009% |
| 2020 | #8,512 | 12 | 0.0007% |
| 2019 | #12,740 | 7 | 0.0004% |
| 2017 | #16,421 | 5 | 0.0003% |
| 2015 | #17,040 | 5 | 0.0003% |
| Year | Rank | Births | % |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | #256 | 1,352 | 0.0792% |
| 2024 | #250 | 1,413 | 0.0824% |
| 2023 | #260 | 1,324 | 0.0775% |
| 2022 | #253 | 1,356 | 0.0777% |
| 2021 | #266 | 1,306 | 0.0747% |
| 2020 | #284 | 1,189 | 0.0689% |
| 2019 | #338 | 995 | 0.0555% |
| 2018 | #578 | 478 | 0.0263% |
| 2017 | #715 | 340 | 0.0184% |
| 2016 | #731 | 335 | 0.0177% |
| 2015 | #717 | 346 | 0.0181% |
| 2014 | #685 | 368 | 0.0192% |
| 2013 | #738 | 317 | 0.0168% |
| 2012 | #773 | 294 | 0.0155% |
| 2011 | #942 | 210 | 0.0111% |
| 2010 | #1,009 | 194 | 0.0101% |
| 2009 | #1,243 | 144 | 0.0073% |
| 2008 | #1,363 | 125 | 0.0061% |
| 2007 | #1,597 | 98 | 0.0047% |
| 2006 | #1,701 | 83 | 0.0040% |
| 2005 | #2,372 | 49 | 0.0025% |
| 2004 | #2,496 | 44 | 0.0022% |
| 2003 | #3,865 | 22 | 0.0011% |
| 2002 | #2,825 | 33 | 0.0017% |
| 2001 | #3,337 | 26 | 0.0013% |
| 2000 | #4,620 | 16 | 0.0008% |
| 1999 | #5,369 | 12 | 0.0006% |
| 1998 | #4,451 | 15 | 0.0008% |
| 1997 | #5,723 | 10 | 0.0005% |
| 1996 | #9,274 | 5 | 0.0003% |
| 1995 | #7,983 | 6 | 0.0003% |
Name popularity over more than a century, based on Social Security Administration data. Gaps in the chart indicate years when the name does not appear in the published records.
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How the Name Crew Shapes Your Personality and Life?
You are cheerful and friendly, but are apt to have an emotional life. You like to have several lines of effort going at once. You are a good talker and promoter and seldom worry over anything. At times, you can be impatient, and impulsive. You have the ability to bring an idea to completion. You can express yourself joyously and constructively. You might be psychic, but not know it. You have an eventful, exciting life. You are versatile and have the ability to learn easily.
Dependable, very down-to-earth and well grounded, you are always looking for meaningful work, a career where you can take pride in your work and do the best job you are capable of. Your prime desire is to build protected and secure environment at home and at work. You can be very persuasive in achieving goals and gaining objectives. You can be very detailed and well-organized and possess great organizational skills. At times you may appear too stubborn and overly critical to others, but your practical approach to life and productivity makes you one of the most beneficent members of community.
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