Creed vs Creighton
American parents have registered 5,925 Creeds since 1880, against 3,780 Creightons. Creed is still ahead, with 413 babies in 2025.
Babies given each name, 1880–2025
Creed Creighton
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 129 years in which either name was published, Creighton for 80 years and Creed for 49 years. The lead changed hands 18 times.
- 1880–1913 Creed ahead, apart from one short spell
- 1926–1933 Creighton ahead
- 1934–1937 Creed ahead
- 1938–2000 Creighton ahead
- 2001–2025 Creed ahead, apart from one short spell
12 shorter spells of a year or two are folded into the spans above rather than listed separately.
Side by side
| Creed | Creighton | |
|---|---|---|
| Total US births | 5,925 | 3,780 |
| Most in one year | 467 | 81 |
| Babies in 2025 | 413 | 29 |
| Estimated living today | 5,200 | 2,900 |
| Median age today | 6 | 28 |
| Peak year | 2024 | 2007 |
| Best rank | 610th boys | 1,795th boys |
| Rank in 2025 | 663rd | 3,757th |
| First recorded | 1880 | 1906 |
| Girls / boys | 5 / 5,920 | 16 / 3,764 |
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 Creightons alive today are over 28; half the Creeds are over 6. That is 22 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.
Where each one is strongest
- Creed Oklahoma (6.6×), Utah (2.9×), West Virginia (2.9×)
- Creighton Nebraska (40.7×), Kansas (11.1×), Iowa (7.6×)
How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.
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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Creed and Creighton.