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Crescenzo

Boys' name

From Latin Crescentius; literal meaning unconfirmed

Crescenzo has been given to 10 babies in the U.S. since 1920. 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 1920, with 5 recorded.

Babies named Crescenzo, 1922

1 in 458,000

Crescenzo over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Crescenzo: meaning, origin, and history

From Latin Crescentius; literal meaning unconfirmed

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Crescenzo means

Crescenzo is a given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Crescenzo is used in Italian.

Crescenzo comes through Latin Crescentius.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Italian, Crescenzo is pronounced /kreʃˈʃɛn.t͡so/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 10 boys were recorded with the name Crescenzo between 1920 and 1922. Its highest annual count was 5 in 1920; its best national rank was #4,437 in 1920.

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 Crescenzo?

Crescenzo had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1922, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1922
1 in 458,000
5 of 2,289,103 births
Among boys only
1 in 218,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 1922
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
317,338 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Crescenzo 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 1922 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 317,338 children born in 1922 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Crescenzo. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Crescenzos were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Crescenzo was born before 1920 — so the typical Crescenzo is around 105 today.

Median birth year
1920
About 105 years old
Biggest decade
1920s
100.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
0
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1920s — 100.0% of all recorded uses (10).

Is Crescenzo 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
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1920 (5)
Years since peak
105
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Not enough data
Too few years
Best rank ever
#4,437
1920

Crescenzo around the world

Where Crescenzo 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 Australia
    1961–1997
    #543
    in 1997

Popularity data from Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Crescenzo by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
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Best rank ever
#4,437
1920
Peak year
1920
5 that year
First recorded
1920
Last recorded
1922
All-time count
10
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Crescenzo

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

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Sibling names for Crescenzo

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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