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Creig vs Creola

American parents have registered 1,742 Creolas since 1880, against 381 Creigs. Neither name reached five babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Creig against Creola, 1880 to 2025 0 20 40 60 80 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Creig Creola

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 94 years in which either name was published, Creola for 68 years and Creig for 26 years. The lead changed hands 9 times.

Side by side

  Creig Creola
Total US births 3811,742
Most in one year 1867
Babies in 2025 under 5under 5
Estimated living today 290390
Median age today 5976
Peak year 19611920
Best rank 1,948th boys885th girls
Rank in 2025 unrankedunranked
First recorded 19421880
Girls / boys 0 / 3811,742 / 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 Creolas alive today are over 76; half the Creigs are over 59. That is 17 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: Creig and Creola.