Is Cruz a male or female name?
Cruz is used as both a female and male name. In counted records, it is associated with female usage in Spain at 55% and male usage in United States at 88%. Country context changes the answer.
Result without a country hint
This is the response used when the request does not supply a country. It is a fallback, not a claim that every country has the same distribution.
- Association
- male
- Probability
- 87%
- Sample size
- 41,002
- Confidence
- high
Cruz by country
Only sources that publish observation counts appear in this table. The probability is the dominant-gender share within that country source; sample sizes from different countries cover different years and should not be treated as population rankings.
| Country | Association | Probability | Sample | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| United States US | male | 88% | 33,937 | ssa |
| England and Wales GB | male | 100% | 2,836 | ons |
| Canada CA | male | 99% | 2,039 | statcan |
| Spain ES | female | 55% | 1,884 | ine |
| Ireland IE | male | 100% | 107 | cso |
| France FR | male | 100% | 105 | insee |
| Switzerland CH | female | 51% | 61 | bfs |
| Poland PL | male | 81% | 26 | pesel |
| Austria AT | male | 100% | 7 | statat |
Attested in 13 countries and territories
Presence means the name appears in a source for that country. Sources without counts cannot support a popularity share.
AT · AU · BE · CA · CH · ES · FR · GB · IE · NZ · PL · SE · US
Cruz over time
In the United States, 66.1% of the babies named Cruz in the 1900s were girls, against 2.2% in the 2020s. The name has changed sides over time, so the answer depends on when a person was born.
| Decade of birth | United States: girls | Babies |
|---|---|---|
| 1900s | 66% | 124 |
| 1910s | 51% | 602 |
| 1920s | 46% | 1,368 |
| 1930s | 44% | 1,181 |
| 1940s | 39% | 1,196 |
| 1950s | 35% | 1,284 |
| 1960s | 29% | 1,071 |
| 1970s | 25% | 1,055 |
| 1980s | 16% | 1,556 |
| 1990s | 11% | 2,387 |
| 2000s | 4% | 5,339 |
| 2010s | 2% | 11,221 |
| 2020s | 2% | 5,516 |
Births per decade from the US Social Security Administration (1880–2024) and INSEE (France, 1900–2025); decades with fewer than 100 babies are left out. See boys' names that became girls' names and French names that changed sex.
Look up Cruz with a country
Send a reliable two-letter country code when you have one. Preserve probability, sample size, confidence and source with the category.
curl "https://namegender.com/api/v1/gender?name=Cruz&country=US" \
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Method and limits
Counted rows come from national registration sources that publish male and female totals. The attested-country list also includes sources that confirm presence but do not publish a sample size. Those two evidence types are kept separate.
Name data describes a population-level association. It does not identify an individual person's gender. Preserve unknown and low-confidence results, and do not use name inference for employment, medical, financial, insurance, legal or eligibility decisions.
Data version: 2026.10. Read the benchmark methodology and database provenance before applying a threshold.
Questions about Cruz
Is Cruz a male or female name?
Cruz is used as both a female and male name. In counted records, it is associated with female usage in Spain at 55% and male usage in United States at 88%. Country context changes the answer.
Why can the result for Cruz change by country?
A name can have different observed distributions in different populations. A country hint narrows the evidence used by the API instead of treating one global result as universal.
Does the name Cruz identify a person's gender?
No. This page describes statistical associations in name records. It cannot identify an individual person and should not be used for consequential decisions.