Creighton
Creighton reached its high-water mark in 2007 at number 1,795, and has been recorded 3,780 times in all. In 2025 it ranked 3,757th. About 2,900 Creightons are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 28.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Creighton boys named Creighton
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 3,780
- Estimated living today
- 2,900
- Median age today
- 28
- Peak year
- 2007
- Best rank
- 1,795th
- Rank in 2025
- 3,757th
- First recorded
- 1906
- Girls / boys
- 16 / 3,764
How old the living Creightons are
born that year still alive today
Of the 3,780 babies given the name since 1906, about 2,900 are alive — 78 in every hundred. Roughly 880 of them are children and 330 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1997 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Where the name comes from
Variant of Crichton.
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Notable Creightons
- Creighton Abrams (1914–1974)United States Army General
- Creighton Hale (1889–1965)American actor
People named Creighton with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Creighton is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Creighton is most concentrated in Nebraska (40.7×), Kansas (11.1×), Iowa (7.6×), Texas (2.7×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 2007
The most popular boys’ names the year Creighton peaked:
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Creighton against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
Try it on yourself
Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.