Crew
Pronounced K R UW1 (ARPABET)
- 1 syllable
- Peaked 2024
- 30 years in use
- 2 spellings
How popular is Crew?
Crew is a boys' name, and first appears in 1995. It has been given to 15,059 children — the 879th most common boys' name on record.
It is climbing hard: about five times as many births in the past decade as in the one before it. Its best single year was 2024, when 1,913 children were given it.
Two other spellings are counted in that total — Krew and Crewe — because they are pronounced identically.
Spelling variants
These spellings sound identical to Crew and are counted together with it, which is why the totals here are higher than a single-spelling count.
- Krew
- Crewe
Characteristics
- 1 syllable
Phonetic detail
- Pronunciations:
- K R UW1
- Stress pattern:
- 1
- Syllables:
- 1
Stress digits mark unstressed (0), primary (1) and secondary (2) syllables.
Names like Crew
Same first letter and syllable count, peaking around the same time.
Sibling names for Crew
Names from the same era with a matching rhythm but a different initial.
Frequently asked questions
- How popular is the name Crew?
- Crew ranks 879th among boys' names in US records, with 15,059 births since 1995. Over the past decade it accounts for 12,197.
- Is Crew a unisex name?
- No. Crew is recorded almost entirely as a boys' name; births to the other gender are too few to register as a share.
- When was Crew most popular?
- 2024, when 1,913 children were given the name. It has been in use for 30 years and is still recorded as of 2024.
- How else is Crew spelled?
- Krew, Crewe. All of these sound the same and are counted together in the totals on this page.