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Credell vs Cresencio

American parents have registered 879 Cresencios since 1880, against 7 Credells. Neither name reached five babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Credell against Cresencio, 1880 to 2025 0 5 10 15 20 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Credell Cresencio

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Cresencio has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1913 to 2019. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 1953, when Credell had 7 and Cresencio had 7.

Side by side

  Credell Cresencio
Total US births 7879
Most in one year 720
Babies in 2025 under 5under 5
Estimated living today 5530
Median age today 7246
Peak year 19531929
Best rank 3,143rd boys1,672nd boys
Rank in 2025 unrankedunranked
First recorded 19531913
Girls / boys 0 / 70 / 879

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Credells alive today are over 72; half the Cresencios are over 46. That is 26 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Credell and Cresencio.