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Creola

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Creola is absent from the 2024 data, which means fewer than five births. Its best rank was 766th, in 1880.

Rank in 2024
fewer than 5 births
Births in 2024
0not in the data
Peak year
192067 births
Best rank
#766in 1880
Since 1880
1,742people given the name
Babies named Creola, by year of birthgirls
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The story in the numbers

1,742 girls have been named Creola in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1920, with 67 births.

The name has all but left use: none recorded in 2024, against 67 at the peak.

Half of everyone given the name was born by 1926, and the 1920s alone account for 27%. It has spent 9 of 145 years in the top 1,000.

Rank among girls, year by year

Higher on the chart = more popularrank (gaps = outside the top 1,000)
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By decade

Decadegirls named Creola
1880s11
1890s32
1900s121
1910s361
1920s475
1930s307
1940s212
1950s140
1960s59
1970s13
1980s11

In 1920, its biggest year

Creola was the 886th most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1920 were Mary, Dorothy, Helen, Margaret and Ruth. See all of 1920.

Names that rose and fell with Creola

Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.

What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.