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Cresencio vs Cressie

American parents have registered 879 Cresencios since 1880, against 368 Cressies. Neither name reached five babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Cresencio against Cressie, 1880 to 2025 0 5 10 15 20 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Cresencio Cressie

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 114 years in which either name was published, Cresencio for 85 years and Cressie for 29 years. The lead changed hands 11 times.

Side by side

  Cresencio Cressie
Total US births 879368
Most in one year 2015
Babies in 2025 under 5under 5
Estimated living today 53060
Median age today 4674
Peak year 19291915
Best rank 1,672nd boys2,050th girls
Rank in 2025 unrankedunranked
First recorded 19131889
Girls / boys 0 / 879368 / 0

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 Cressies alive today are over 74; half the Cresencios are over 46. That is 28 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: Cresencio and Cressie.