boys:
827 births since 1906
#3760 (18th percentile)
overall:
827 births since 1906
#6912 (11th percentile)
The name Creston is the #6,912 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 827 recorded births since 1906. This represents the 10.7% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 10.7% of all names). For boys, it ranks #3,760 (18.0% percentile) for all time with 827 births since 1906.
Creston first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1906 (first recorded for boys in 1906). Birth data for Creston is available in 94 out of the 118 years between 1906 and 2023. 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.
For boys, Creston reached its peak popularity in 1989, achieving the 2.4% percentile (ranked #739) with 9 births per million. The name was most common in 1906, with 35 births per million (ranked 0.0% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 2021, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Creston ranks #911 for boys (0.0% percentile) with 3 births per million, which is 7.9% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Creston".
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