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Unnamed BabySSA national name archive · 1880–2025

Cross

Recorded for both sexesGen Z

2025 rank

#1,960

up +488 places

2025 births

78

up +22 births

All-time births

1,375

6% of them in 2025

More common than

91%

of all archived spellings recorded for boys, by lifetime births for that sex
Peak year
2025
78 births
Best rank
#1,646
in 1998
First recorded
1997
#2,067 that year
Last recorded
2025
still in the data
Average birth year
2012
weighted by recorded births
Years recorded
29 of 146
unbroken

Top five years

  1. 202578#1,960Peak
  2. 202176#1,966
  3. 202364#2,228
  4. 199863#1,646
  5. 202062#2,215

Rank over time

Inverted scale — nearer the top is more popular. Unrecorded years are left blank, not drawn as zero.

Best rank #1,646 in 1998 · peak births 78 in 2025

Boys and girls

Births per year for each sex, on one shared scale. The girls' series is dashed.

● 100% boys■ 0% girls

1,375 boys · 6 girls, all time

Births by decade

Where the name's whole run sits, with the best and worst rank it held in each decade

Trajectory by decade

Where Cross has ranked, decade by decade

The band spans each decade's best and worst rank; the line follows its best.