Fun Facts About the Name Krew
- More than 4 thousand babies named Krew: U.S. records list 4,173 babies given the name Krew from 1880 through 2025. Even 41 girls received the name Krew - about 1 girl for every 101 boys.
What Does the Name Krew Mean?
Krew is a modern spelling of Crew, an English word name, and it carries the word's meaning: a group of people who work or act together, especially the company of a ship. The English noun crew comes from Middle English crue, meaning "reinforcement" or "troop," which was borrowed from Old French creue, "increase, reinforcement." That Old French noun derives from the verb croistre, "to grow," from Latin crescere. The literal sense is therefore "a growing body of people, a reinforcement," which developed into the everyday meaning of a team or gang. The Polish word krew, meaning "blood," is a separate word, and no established connection links it to the given name.
Krew Name History & Origins
Crew began to be used as a given name in the United States in the late twentieth century, during a period when English words and surnames were increasingly adopted as first names. Krew is a respelled variant that keeps the pronunciation of Crew while giving it a distinct look. Respelling crew as krew has a long background in American English, where the k form has appeared in slang and in youth and music culture to mean a clique or team. A related spelling, krewe, has been used since the nineteenth century for the social organizations that stage Mardi Gras parades in New Orleans, beginning with the Mistick Krewe of Comus in 1857; that form was a deliberately fanciful respelling of crew rather than the direct source of the first name. Because Krew is uncommon and recent, its development is sparsely documented.
How Popular is the Name Krew?
Krew recorded its highest annual U.S. birth count in 2024. Its best rank was #584 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 | % |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | #10,677 | 9 | 0.0006% |
| 2023 | #12,840 | 7 | 0.0004% |
| 2022 | #16,598 | 5 | 0.0003% |
| 2021 | #10,723 | 9 | 0.0005% |
| 2019 | #14,759 | 6 | 0.0004% |
| 2018 | #16,990 | 5 | 0.0003% |
| Year | Rank | Births | % |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | #601 | 476 | 0.0279% |
| 2024 | #584 | 488 | 0.0284% |
| 2023 | #648 | 422 | 0.0247% |
| 2022 | #625 | 448 | 0.0257% |
| 2021 | #628 | 439 | 0.0251% |
| 2020 | #707 | 355 | 0.0206% |
| 2019 | #852 | 263 | 0.0147% |
| 2018 | #939 | 223 | 0.0123% |
| 2017 | #1,118 | 172 | 0.0093% |
| 2016 | #1,527 | 110 | 0.0058% |
| 2015 | #1,466 | 115 | 0.0060% |
| 2014 | #1,741 | 87 | 0.0045% |
| 2013 | #1,702 | 87 | 0.0046% |
| 2012 | #1,953 | 73 | 0.0038% |
| 2011 | #1,749 | 84 | 0.0044% |
| 2010 | #1,981 | 70 | 0.0036% |
| 2009 | #2,272 | 58 | 0.0029% |
| 2008 | #2,494 | 51 | 0.0025% |
| 2007 | #3,217 | 35 | 0.0017% |
| 2006 | #3,735 | 27 | 0.0013% |
| 2005 | #8,031 | 9 | 0.0005% |
| 2004 | #10,760 | 6 | 0.0003% |
| 2003 | #8,285 | 8 | 0.0004% |
| 2002 | #6,827 | 10 | 0.0005% |
| 2001 | #6,263 | 11 | 0.0006% |
| 2000 | #11,409 | 5 | 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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