Credence
#5,905 in 2025UnisexBoys' nameGirls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Credence has been given to 158 babies in the U.S. since 2013. In 2025 it ranked #5,905 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2022, with 19 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 87% boys, 13% girls all-time.
Babies named Credence, 2025
1 in 221,000
Credence 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
Girls or boys — Credence over time
In 2025, Credence went to 0% girls and 100% boys.
A sex is only published in years it reached five applications, so a stretch at 0% or 100% means the other side stayed under that floor — not that it was never used.
How common is Credence?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 221,000
- 15 of 3,315,165 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 114,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2025
- #5,905
- of 13,926 boys’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 153,194 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Credence sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 153,194 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Credence. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Credences were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Credence was born before 2021 — so the typical Credence is around 4 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2020s
- 65.0% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 100.0%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 137
- People you could plausibly meet
2020s — 65.0% of all recorded uses (89).
Is Credence 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
- −430
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- −148
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 78.9%
- Peak was 2022 (19)
- Years since peak
- 3
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 46.5% average annual change
Spellings of Credence
Credence is not the most common spelling — Cadence is, with 93.9% against Credence's 6.1%.
- Cadence93.9%2,125
- Credence6.1%137
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.
Credence around the world
Where Credence 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 Australia1994–1994#716in 1994
Popularity data from Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Credence by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
As a boy's name
Names similar to Credence
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Credence
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.