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Creighton: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 29 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,155 in 1944.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,155 in 1944; #3,774 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Creighton in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#3,774 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1944, at #1,155.
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Creighton: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 29 boys in 2025. Peak: #1,155 in 1944 · most boys in one year: 81 (2007).
In 2025, 29 US boys were named Creighton, making it the 3,774th most common boys’ name of the year, up 42 places from #3,816 in 2024. That is 0 more than the 29 boys named Creighton in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #1,155, reached in 1944. The most boys given the name in a single year was 81, in 2007. For comparison, it was #2,492 in 2015 and #1,474 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Creighton in 116 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1906 with 5 babies. In all, 3,780 US babies have been given the name, 0.4% of them girls and 99.5% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 633 babies named Creighton.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 376 US boys were named Creighton; the busiest of those years was 2020, with 48. In 2025 that was about 1 in 58,899 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Rarer spellings such as Kreighton are summarised on this page.
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No related spellings pass our data threshold.
Rare spellings summarised here: Kreighton (89).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Creighton in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 29 | #3,774 |
| 2024 | — | — | 29 | #3,816 |
| 2023 | — | — | 41 | #3,018 |
| 2022 | — | — | 32 | #3,552 |
| 2021 | — | — | 34 | #3,373 |
| 2020 | — | — | 48 | #2,627 |
| 2019 | — | — | 31 | #3,584 |
| 2018 | — | — | 45 | #2,716 |
| 2017 | 5 | #16,424 | 40 | #2,968 |
| 2016 | — | — | 47 | #2,635 |
| 2015 | — | — | 50 | #2,492 |
| 2014 | — | — | 60 | #2,237 |
| 2013 | — | — | 61 | #2,169 |
| 2012 | — | — | 67 | #2,052 |
| 2011 | — | — | 62 | #2,132 |
| 2010 | — | — | 71 | #1,959 |
| 2009 | — | — | 57 | #2,294 |
| 2008 | 6 | #15,840 | 74 | #1,937 |
| 2007 | — | — | 81 | #1,797 |
| 2006 | 5 | #17,737 | 55 | #2,291 |
| 2005 | — | — | 57 | #2,136 |
| 2004 | — | — | 51 | #2,249 |
| 2003 | — | — | 53 | #2,107 |
| 2002 | — | — | 58 | #1,923 |
| 2001 | — | — | 64 | #1,767 |
| 2000 | — | — | 72 | #1,629 |
| 1999 | — | — | 45 | #2,105 |
| 1998 | — | — | 27 | #2,942 |
| 1997 | — | — | 55 | #1,758 |
| 1996 | — | — | 43 | #2,022 |
| 1995 | — | — | 45 | #1,889 |
| 1994 | — | — | 47 | #1,830 |
| 1993 | — | — | 40 | #2,015 |
| 1992 | — | — | 42 | #1,923 |
| 1991 | — | — | 44 | #1,804 |
| 1990 | — | — | 32 | #2,225 |
| 1989 | — | — | 34 | #2,074 |
| 1988 | — | — | 42 | #1,676 |
| 1987 | — | — | 53 | #1,386 |
| 1986 | — | — | 30 | #1,969 |
| 1985 | — | — | 34 | #1,766 |
| 1984 | — | — | 46 | #1,402 |
| 1983 | — | — | 32 | #1,757 |
| 1982 | — | — | 33 | #1,737 |
| 1981 | — | — | 36 | #1,639 |
| 1980 | — | — | 36 | #1,627 |
| 1979 | — | — | 22 | #2,247 |
| 1978 | — | — | 25 | #1,976 |
| 1977 | — | — | 36 | #1,547 |
| 1976 | — | — | 36 | #1,509 |
| 1975 | — | — | 38 | #1,435 |
| 1974 | — | — | 38 | #1,391 |
| 1973 | — | — | 41 | #1,298 |
| 1972 | — | — | 36 | #1,421 |
| 1971 | — | — | 46 | #1,218 |
| 1970 | — | — | 41 | #1,300 |
| 1969 | — | — | 30 | #1,469 |
| 1968 | — | — | 25 | #1,583 |
| 1967 | — | — | 25 | #1,544 |
| 1966 | — | — | 17 | #1,907 |
| 1965 | — | — | 16 | #1,996 |
| 1964 | — | — | 25 | #1,588 |
| 1963 | — | — | 18 | #1,916 |
| 1962 | — | — | 14 | #2,209 |
| 1961 | — | — | 22 | #1,741 |
| 1960 | — | — | 23 | #1,698 |
| 1959 | — | — | 22 | #1,728 |
| 1958 | — | — | 22 | #1,693 |
| 1957 | — | — | 32 | #1,395 |
| 1956 | — | — | 28 | #1,489 |
| 1955 | — | — | 31 | #1,376 |
| 1954 | — | — | 18 | #1,842 |
| 1953 | — | — | 25 | #1,522 |
| 1952 | — | — | 29 | #1,413 |
| 1951 | — | — | 27 | #1,432 |
| 1950 | — | — | 25 | #1,474 |
| 1949 | — | — | 31 | #1,302 |
| 1948 | — | — | 24 | #1,496 |
| 1947 | — | — | 28 | #1,400 |
| 1946 | — | — | 29 | #1,304 |
| 1945 | — | — | 23 | #1,386 |
| 1944 | — | — | 33 | #1,155 |
| 1943 | — | — | 22 | #1,497 |
| 1942 | — | — | 23 | #1,474 |
| 1941 | — | — | 14 | #1,926 |
| 1940 | — | — | 18 | #1,643 |
| 1939 | — | — | 12 | #2,083 |
| 1938 | — | — | 9 | #2,512 |
| 1937 | — | — | 15 | #1,838 |
| 1936 | — | — | 11 | #2,205 |
| 1935 | — | — | 11 | #2,277 |
| 1934 | — | — | 17 | #1,735 |
| 1933 | — | — | 20 | #1,551 |
| 1932 | — | — | 20 | #1,598 |
| 1931 | — | — | 29 | #1,289 |
| 1930 | — | — | 25 | #1,470 |
| 1929 | — | — | 20 | #1,686 |
| 1928 | — | — | 24 | #1,531 |
| 1927 | — | — | 26 | #1,481 |
| 1926 | — | — | 29 | #1,360 |
| 1925 | — | — | 15 | #2,110 |
| 1924 | — | — | 28 | #1,423 |
| 1923 | — | — | 20 | #1,769 |
| 1922 | — | — | 16 | #2,062 |
| 1921 | — | — | 17 | #1,998 |
| 1920 | — | — | 30 | #1,332 |
| 1919 | — | — | 15 | #2,079 |
| 1918 | — | — | 16 | #2,016 |
| 1917 | — | — | 27 | #1,335 |
| 1916 | — | — | 20 | #1,604 |
| 1915 | — | — | 11 | #2,339 |
| 1914 | — | — | 10 | #2,138 |
| 1913 | — | — | 11 | #1,703 |
| 1912 | — | — | 5 | #2,629 |
| 1909 | — | — | 7 | #1,179 |
| 1906 | — | — | 5 | #1,282 |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).