Cranston
Boys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Cranston has been given to 364 babies in the U.S. since 1917. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1990, with 12 recorded.
Babies named Cranston, 2010
1 in 739,000
Cranston over time, 1880–2025
Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Cranston?
Cranston had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2010, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 2010
- 1 in 739,000
- 5 of 3,695,928 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 384,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2010
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 512,366 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Cranston sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2010 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 512,366 children born in 2010 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Cranston. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Cranstons were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Cranston was born before 1959 — so the typical Cranston is around 66 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1950s
- 22.8% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 16.5%
- Spread across generations
- Recorded since 1950
- 259
- People you could plausibly meet
1950s — 22.8% of all recorded uses (83).
Is Cranston rising or falling?
Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.
- Rank vs 1 year ago
- —
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- New entry
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 0%
- Peak was 1990 (12)
- Years since peak
- 35
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 28.1% average annual change
Spellings of Cranston
Cranston is not the most common spelling — Branson is, with 57.6% against Cranston's 2.5%.
Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.
Cranston around the world
Where Cranston ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.
- South Australia1954–1964#557in 1964
Popularity data from Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Cranston by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Cranston
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Cranston
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.