Creon
Boys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Creon has been given to 10 babies in the U.S. since 1972. 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 1972, with 5 recorded.
Babies named Creon, 1990
1 in 790,000
Creon 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Creon?
Creon had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1990, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 1990
- 1 in 790,000
- 5 of 3,949,959 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 411,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 1990
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 547,582 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Creon sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 1990 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 547,582 children born in 1990 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Creon. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Creons were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Creon was born before 1972 — so the typical Creon is around 53 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1970s
- 50.0% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 100.0%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 10
- People you could plausibly meet
1970s — 50.0% of all recorded uses (5).
Is Creon 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 1972 (5)
- Years since peak
- 53
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Not enough data
- Too few years
Spellings of Creon
Creon is not the most common spelling — Leon is, with 32.3% against Creon's <0.01%.
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 Creon is used
Across 1910–2025, Creon was most concentrated in Texas — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 2,652,691 across all states with data.
Most concentrated
- 1Texas1 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. Creon has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Creon around the world
Where Creon 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 Australia1975–1975#322in 1975
Popularity data from Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Creon by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Creon
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Creon
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.