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Creighton vs Crew

American parents have registered 12,580 Crews since 1880, against 3,780 Creightons. Crew is still ahead, with 1,362 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Creighton 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 116 years in which either name was published, Creighton for 96 years and Crew for 20 years. The lead changed hands once.

Side by side

  Creighton Crew
Total US births 3,78012,580
Most in one year 811,420
Babies in 2025 291,362
Estimated living today 2,90012,000
Median age today 284
Peak year 20072024
Best rank 1,795th boys250th boys
Rank in 2025 3,757th256th
First recorded 19061995
Girls / boys 16 / 3,76471 / 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 Creightons alive today are over 28; half the Crews are over 4. That is 24 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: Creighton and Crew.