Cricket

Nature name

Cricket Origin and Meaning

The name Cricket is a girl's name.

Nickname name from the era of Father Knows Best, though we can see it making something of a comeback, a la Clover and Pippa. Cricket has new potential especially since it has recently been chosen by Busy Philipps. Still, it's one of the quirkier girl names starting with C.

Cricket Rank in Nameberry Top 1000

# 1440 on Nameberry

Popularity of the name Cricket

• 1440 Nameberry 2025

20 Names Similar to Cricket

These 20 names were selected by our users that were looking for other names like Cricket.

• Prairie
• Plum
• Holiday
• Tuesday
• Pip
• Posy
• Poe
• Sunday
• Bean
• Pepper
• Lemon
• Bee
• January
• Poet
• Finch
• Maple
• Huckleberry
• Otter
• Darling
• Bunny

Famous People Named Cricket

• Cricket Leigh American voice actress
• Crickett Rumley American novelist
• Cricket Pearl Silverstein daughter of actress Busy Philipps and husband Marc Silverstein

The name Cricket in Pop Culture

• Christine "Cricket" Blair character in American soap "The Young & the Restless"
• Cricket Caruth Reilly, character on TV's GCB
• Cricket Stewart character in the miniseries "The Starter Wife"
• Cricket Green from disney's show "Big City Greens"
• Cricket Pate male character in movie "Lawless"
• Cricket Bell the boy next door in the novel "Lola and the Boy Next Door" by Stephanie Perkins
• Cricket character in the film To Have and Have Not
• Cricket character in Fire on the Mountain by Terry Bisson
• Cricket or Rickety Cricket, character on TV's It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia
• Jiminy Cricket Disney character (a cricket)
• Crickett character on TV's "Hart of Dixie"
• Criquette Rockwell a character on French,Canadian parody soap "Le coeur a ses raisons"
• Cricket talking doll in the 1980s
• Cricket popular Commonwealth sport
• The Crickets backing band of singer Buddy Holly