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Creed

#663 in 2025Boys' name

Set of beliefs

Creed has been given to 5,925 babies in the U.S. since 1880. In 2025 it ranked #663 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2024, with 467 recorded.

Babies named Creed, 2025

1 in 8,030

Creed over time, 1880–2025

BoysGirls
020040060018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Creed: meaning, origin, and history

Set of beliefs

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Creed means

Creed means “set of beliefs”.

Origin, language, and formation

Creed is used in English.

Pronunciation and spelling

In English, Creed is pronounced /kɹiːd/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 5,920 boys were recorded with the name Creed between 1880 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 467 in 2024; its best national rank was #610 in 2024.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #791 in 2020 to #663 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #1,342 in 2015 to #663 in 2025.

In the United States, 5 girls were recorded with the name Creed between 2020 and 2020. Its highest annual count was 5 in 2020; its best national rank was #15,647 in 2020.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Creed?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 8,030
413 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 4,140
0.02% of boys
Rank, 2025
#663
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
5,565 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Creed sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

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.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 1001%
School of 5006%

Put another way: gather 5,565 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Creed. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Creeds were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Creed was born before 2017 — so the typical Creed is around 8 today.

Median birth year
2017
About 8 years old
Biggest decade
2020s
40.4% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
77.4%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
5,206
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2020s — 40.4% of all recorded uses (2,391).

Is Creed 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
−53
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
+128
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+679
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
3.15×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
88.4%
Peak was 2024 (467)
Years since peak
1
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
16.2% average annual change
Best rank ever
#610
2024

Spellings of Creed

Creed is not the most common spelling — Fred is, with 76.0% against Creed's 1.3%.

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.

Where Creed is used

Across 2016–2025, Creed was most concentrated in Oklahoma — about 1 in 862 boys, against 1 in 5,051 across all states with data. It was least common in New Jersey (1 in 100,000).

1116 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Oklahoma1 in 862
  2. 2West Virginia1 in 870
  3. 3Missouri1 in 1,515
  4. 4Arkansas1 in 1,587
  5. 5Louisiana1 in 1,724
  6. 6Nebraska1 in 1,852
  7. 7Mississippi1 in 1,887
  8. 8Kansas1 in 2,128

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings.

Geographically, Creed is one of the more regionally concentrated names in the country — more concentrated than 92% of the names used widely enough to compare. See the most regional names

Creed around the world

Where Creed 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.

  • England & Wales
    2014–2025
    #1,035
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    2022–2025
    #762
    in 2025
  • Northern Ireland
    2024–2025
    #344
    in 2025
  • Ireland
    2020–2025
    #676
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2001–2024
    #1,459
    in 2024

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency, Central Statistics Office and Statistics Canada. ONS, NRS, NISRA data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO data under CC BY 4.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Notable people named Creed

People whose public names include Creed, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Creed in other languages

Cross-language forms and variants of Creed. Linked forms have their own page here.

Crede

Variant forms from Wikidata (CC0). Most are used mainly outside the United States; U.S. birth records statistics cover US usage only.

Creed by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#663
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 128
Best rank ever
#610
2024
Peak year
2024
467 that year
First recorded
1880
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
5,920
Count in 2025
413

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#15,647
2020
Peak year
2020
5 that year
First recorded
2020
Last recorded
2020
All-time count
5
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Creed

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

CrewSaeedCreeCreekKreedRasheedWaleedCreightonCreweCrewsReedCreigFareedNaveedShaheedYazeedCrestonCreggCreedeCregHameedOmeedCreedenceCreeden

Names with a curve like Creed

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Creed, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

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Sibling names for Creed

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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