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Creed vs Cresencio

American parents have registered 5,925 Creeds since 1880, against 879 Cresencios. Creed is still ahead, with 413 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Creed 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

Of the 127 years in which either name was published, Creed for 100 years and Cresencio for 27 years. The lead changed hands 36 times.

29 shorter spells of a year or two are folded into the spans above rather than listed separately.

Side by side

  Creed Cresencio
Total US births 5,925879
Most in one year 46720
Babies in 2025 413under 5
Estimated living today 5,200530
Median age today 646
Peak year 20241929
Best rank 610th boys1,672nd boys
Rank in 2025 663rdunranked
First recorded 18801913
Girls / boys 5 / 5,9200 / 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 Cresencios alive today are over 46; half the Creeds are over 6. That is 40 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Where each one is strongest

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 Cresencio.