Given name & surname
Crusoe
“hollow”
Crusoe is a masculine given name, possibly from French.
Meaning & origin
What it means
Crusoe possibly goes back to a word meaning “hollow.”
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 2014. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Crusoe through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 30
- 30 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 2014
- 10 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for boys is 10 in 2021. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 552 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Crusoe’s family of names
In English usage, Crusoe has a related form in Croiseau.
The ring: nicknames and forms.
Nicknames & forms 1
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
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