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Croia vs Croix

American parents have registered 1,201 Croixes since 1880, against 27 Croias. Croix is still ahead, with 65 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Croia against Croix, 1880 to 2025 0 25 50 75 100 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Croia Croix

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Croix has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1987 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2024, when Croia had 11 and Croix had 57.

Side by side

  Croia Croix
Total US births 271,201
Most in one year 1188
Babies in 2025 765
Estimated living today 301,200
Median age today 19
Peak year 20242019
Best rank 8,946th girls1,762nd boys
Rank in 2025 11,932nd2,332nd
First recorded 20231987
Girls / boys 27 / 022 / 1,179

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Croixes alive today are over 9; half the Croias are over 1. That is 8 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Croia and Croix.