Entry № 2186 · English origin

Crew Crew — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ KROO /
Gender
Girl
Origin
English
Meaning
"Group of comrades (modern unisex word-name)"
Syllables
1
First recorded
Medieval (English)

A name that means "group of comrades (modern unisex word-name)".

Crew is from the Middle English crewe — from the Old French crue (an augmentation or reinforcement of troops); a modern American word-name. The Mod Squad's "crew" of three undercover detectives.

Group of comrades.

The name in its native script.

Crew
Transliteration
Crew
Pronunciation
/ kruː /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Crew stands.

Crew does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Crews before her.

Real people
Crew Gaines
Chip + Joanna Gaines's son.
born 2018
In fiction
Crew
Modern American naming.

Names connected to Crew.

The number behind Crew.

4

The Builder

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Crew reduce to 4, The Builder. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.