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Creighton

#3,773 in 2025Boys' name

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Creighton has been given to 3,780 babies in the U.S. since 1906. In 2025 it ranked #3,773 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2007, with 81 recorded.

Babies named Creighton, 2025

1 in 114,000

Creighton over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Creighton: meaning, origin, and history

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Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Creighton means

Creighton means “border”.

Origin, language, and formation

Creighton is used in English.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Crichton.

Pronunciation and spelling

In English, Creighton is pronounced /ˈkɹeɪtən/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 3,764 boys were recorded with the name Creighton between 1906 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 81 in 2007; its best national rank was #1,155 in 1944.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #2,626 in 2020 to #3,773 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #2,491 in 2015 to #3,773 in 2025.

In the United States, 16 girls were recorded with the name Creighton between 2006 and 2017. Its highest annual count was 6 in 2008; its best national rank was #15,834 in 2008.

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 Creighton?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 114,000
29 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 58,900
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#3,773
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
79,239 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Creighton 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 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 79,239 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Creighton. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Creightons were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Creighton was born before 1987 — so the typical Creighton is around 38 today.

Median birth year
1987
About 38 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
16.5% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
34.5%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
2,998
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2000s — 16.5% of all recorded uses (622).

Is Creighton 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
+41
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
−1,147
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−1,282
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.58×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
35.8%
Peak was 2007 (81)
Years since peak
18
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
18.3% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,155
1944

Spellings of Creighton

Creighton is not the most common spelling — Leighton is, with 58.1% against Creighton's 23.3%.

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 Creighton is used

Across 1910–2025, Creighton was most concentrated in Nebraska — about 1 in 9,091 boys, against 1 in 208,653 across all states with data. It was least common in Washington (1 in —).

011 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Nebraska1 in 9,091
  2. 2Kansas1 in 33,333
  3. 3Hawaii1 in 50,000
  4. 4Iowa1 in 50,000
  5. 5Texas1 in 100,000
  6. 6California1 in —
  7. 7Florida1 in —
  8. 8Georgia1 in —

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. Creighton has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Creighton around the world

Where Creighton 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.

  • Canada
    1991–1991
    #1,541
    in 1991
  • South Australia
    1947–1951
    #321
    in 1951

Popularity data from Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Notable people named Creighton

People whose public names include Creighton, 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.

Creighton by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#3,773
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 1,147
Best rank ever
#1,155
1944
Peak year
2007
81 that year
First recorded
1906
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
3,764
Count in 2025
29

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#15,834
2008
Peak year
2008
6 that year
First recorded
2006
Last recorded
2017
All-time count
16
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Creighton

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

CrestonCharltonThurstonCreedenceArlingtonThorntonBrightonPrincetonWellingtonCharlestonLexingtonHamiltonLangstonClifftonCresencioCarringtonStrattonQuentonTreytonLeightonEllingtonBrixtonKlaytonColeton

Names with a curve like Creighton

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

GeronimoLinoMannyIsrealPatricioAugustinDemetrioCelsoEbenBurkeAbelardoPascual

Sibling names for Creighton

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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