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Creed vs Cregg

American parents have registered 5,925 Creeds since 1880, against 179 Creggs. Creed is still ahead, with 413 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Creed against Cregg, 1880 to 2025 0 125 250 375 500 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Creed Cregg

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

Of the 125 years in which either name was published, Creed for 121 years and Cregg for 4 years. The lead changed hands 6 times.

Side by side

  Creed Cregg
Total US births 5,925179
Most in one year 46712
Babies in 2025 413under 5
Estimated living today 5,200140
Median age today 659
Peak year 20241958
Best rank 610th boys2,370th boys
Rank in 2025 663rdunranked
First recorded 18801951
Girls / boys 5 / 5,9200 / 179

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 Creggs alive today are over 59; half the Creeds are over 6. That is 53 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: Creed and Cregg.