girls:
21 births since 2014
#5695 (0th percentile)
boys:
105 births since 2013
#4481 (2nd percentile)
overall:
126 births since 2013
#7613 (2nd percentile)
The name Credence is the #7,613 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 126 recorded births since 2013. This represents the 1.6% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 1.6% of all names). For boys, it ranks #4,481 (2.2% percentile) for all time with 105 births since 2013. For girls, it ranks #5,695 (0.3% percentile) for all time with 21 births since 2014.
Credence first appeared in U.S. birth records in 2013 (2013 for boys and 2014 for girls). Birth data for Credence is available in 10 out of the 11 years between 2013 and 2023 (9 years for boys and 3 years for girls). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Credence has been given predominantly to boys, with 83.3% of all recorded births being male. In 2023, 100.0% of babies named Credence were boys.
For boys, Credence reached its peak popularity in 2022, achieving the 1.5% percentile (ranked #910) with 10 births per million. The name was most common in 2022, with 10 births per million (ranked 1.5% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2017, the popularity of this name for boys has been increasing. Currently, Credence ranks #905 for boys (0.7% percentile) with 6 births per million, which is 59.2% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Credence reached its peak popularity in 2018, achieving the 0.3% percentile (ranked #958) with 4 births per million. The name was most common in 2018, with 4 births per million (ranked 0.3% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2019.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Credence".
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Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Credence. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 83.7% confident that Credence is pronounced as KREE-duhns, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is KREH-duhns, at 16.3% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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