Crescentia

Girls' name

Growing, increasing, rising, thriving

Crescentia has been given to 62 babies in the U.S. since 1896. 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 1903, with 8 recorded.

Babies named Crescentia, 1986

1 in 711,000

Crescentia over time, 1880–2025

Girls

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Crescentia: meaning, origin, and history

Growing, increasing, rising, thriving

Latin

What Crescentia means

Crescentia means “growing, increasing, rising, thriving”, associated with crēscēns.

Origin, language, and formation

Crescentia is used in German. Its origins include Latin.

Crescentia comes through Latin Crēscentia.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 62 girls were recorded with the name Crescentia between 1896 and 1986. Its highest annual count was 8 in 1903; its best national rank was #1,345 in 1903.

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 Crescentia?

Crescentia had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1986, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1986: 1 in 711,000; 5 of 3,556,724 births
Among girls only: 1 in 343,000; <0.01% of girls
Rank, 1986: Unranked; Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size: 493,068 kids; Even odds of a second one

Where Crescentia sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 1986 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 493,068 children born in 1986 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Crescentia. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Crescentias were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Crescentia was born before 1912 — so the typical Crescentia is around 113 today.

Median birth year: 1912; About 113 years old
Biggest decade: 1910s; 29.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years: 17.7%; Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950: 11; People you could plausibly meet

Choose a decade

1910s — 29.0% of all recorded uses (18).

Is Crescentia 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 1903 (8)
Years since peak: 122; Years
Year-to-year steadiness: Steady; 8.3% average annual change
Best rank ever: #1,345; 1903

Crescentia by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025: Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago: —
Best rank ever: #1,345; 1903
Peak year: 1903; 8 that year
First recorded: 1896
Last recorded: 1986
All-time count: 62
Count in 2025: Under 5

Names similar to Crescentia

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

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Sibling names for Crescentia

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

For a sister

Hulda Meta Golda Lauretta Era Leatha Leone Mayme

For a brother

Dewey Gustave Waldo Orrin Winfield Dorsey Isadore Aloysius

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