girls:
16 births since 2006
#5700 (0th percentile)
boys:
3.7k births since 1906
#2038 (56th percentile)
overall:
3.7k births since 1906
#4500 (42nd percentile)
The name Creighton is the #4,500 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 3,722 recorded births since 1906. This represents the 41.8% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 41.8% of all names). For boys, it ranks #2,038 (55.5% percentile) for all time with 3,706 births since 1906. For girls, it ranks #5,700 (0.2% percentile) for all time with 16 births since 2006.
Creighton first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1906 (1906 for boys and 2006 for girls). Birth data for Creighton is available in 114 out of the 118 years between 1906 and 2023 (114 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 Creighton has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 99.6% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Creighton reached its peak popularity in 2007, achieving the 8.6% percentile (ranked #807) with 37 births per million. The name was most common in 1909, with 40 births per million (ranked 0.7% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 2011, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Creighton ranks #875 for boys (4.0% percentile) with 22 births per million, which is 56.6% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Creighton reached its peak popularity in 2008, achieving the 0.1% percentile (ranked #983) with 3 births per million. The name was most common in 2008, with 3 births per million (ranked 0.1% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2017.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Creighton".
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