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Creig vs Cresencio

American parents have registered 879 Cresencios since 1880, against 381 Creigs. Neither name reached five babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Creig 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 95 years in which either name was published, Cresencio for 75 years and Creig for 20 years. The lead changed hands 12 times.

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

Side by side

  Creig Cresencio
Total US births 381879
Most in one year 1820
Babies in 2025 under 5under 5
Estimated living today 290530
Median age today 5946
Peak year 19611929
Best rank 1,948th boys1,672nd boys
Rank in 2025 unrankedunranked
First recorded 19421913
Girls / boys 0 / 3810 / 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 Creigs alive today are over 59; half the Cresencios are over 46. That is 13 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 Cresencio.