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Creed vs Creig

American parents have registered 5,925 Creeds since 1880, against 381 Creigs. Creed is still ahead, with 413 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Creed Creig

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 126 years in which either name was published, Creed for 114 years and Creig for 12 years. The lead changed hands 10 times.

Side by side

  Creed Creig
Total US births 5,925381
Most in one year 46718
Babies in 2025 413under 5
Estimated living today 5,200290
Median age today 659
Peak year 20241961
Best rank 610th boys1,948th boys
Rank in 2025 663rdunranked
First recorded 18801942
Girls / boys 5 / 5,9200 / 381

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 Creigs 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 Creig.