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Creedence vs Crew

American parents have registered 12,580 Crews since 1880, against 599 Creedences. Crew is still ahead, with 1,362 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Creedence against Crew, 1880 to 2025 0 400 800 1.2k 1.6k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Creedence Crew

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 32 years in which either name was published, Crew for 30 years and Creedence for 2 years. The lead changed hands 3 times.

Side by side

  Creedence Crew
Total US births 59912,580
Most in one year 541,420
Babies in 2025 281,362
Estimated living today 59012,000
Median age today 64
Peak year 20212024
Best rank 2,918th boys250th boys
Rank in 2025 3,848th256th
First recorded 19941995
Girls / boys 136 / 46371 / 12,509

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 Creedences alive today are over 6; half the Crews are over 4. That is 2 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: Creedence and Crew.