Creola
Creola was last recorded in 1984, when 5 babies were given it; 1,742 Americans have been recorded with it between 1880 and 1984 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Creola by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Creola?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #10,740, in 1984; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
67 babies in 1920, the peak
Creola peaked in 1920, when 67 girls were given it, #886 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1984 | 5 | #10,740 | 3.0 |
| 1983 | 6 | #9,268 | 3.6 |
| 1978 | 7 | #7,779 | 4.6 |
| 1975 | 6 | #8,191 | 4.1 |
| 1969 | 5 | #7,676 | 3.0 |
| 1967 | 6 | #6,150 | 3.6 |
| 1966 | 9 | #4,552 | 5.3 |
| 1965 | 7 | #5,379 | 4.0 |
| 1964 | 7 | #5,580 | 3.7 |
| 1963 | 10 | #4,308 | 5.2 |
Every recorded year (78)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1962 | 5 | #6,742 | 2.5 |
| 1960 | 10 | #4,229 | 4.9 |
| 1959 | 8 | #4,700 | 4.0 |
| 1958 | 10 | #3,979 | 5.0 |
| 1957 | 6 | #5,511 | 2.9 |
| 1956 | 16 | #2,947 | 8.0 |
| 1955 | 11 | #3,614 | 5.6 |
| 1954 | 20 | #2,460 | 10.3 |
| 1953 | 14 | #2,952 | 7.4 |
| 1952 | 15 | #2,839 | 8.1 |
| 1951 | 19 | #2,326 | 10.6 |
| 1950 | 21 | #2,133 | 12.3 |
| 1949 | 21 | #2,150 | 12.3 |
| 1948 | 15 | #2,611 | 8.8 |
| 1947 | 26 | #1,906 | 14.7 |
| 1946 | 17 | #2,332 | 10.8 |
| 1945 | 14 | #2,352 | 10.7 |
| 1944 | 17 | #2,113 | 12.8 |
| 1943 | 21 | #1,910 | 15.1 |
| 1942 | 25 | #1,671 | 18.5 |
| 1941 | 29 | #1,451 | 24.0 |
| 1940 | 27 | #1,483 | 23.6 |
| 1939 | 22 | #1,652 | 20.1 |
| 1938 | 30 | #1,347 | 27.2 |
| 1937 | 33 | #1,259 | 31.0 |
| 1936 | 31 | #1,299 | 29.8 |
| 1935 | 36 | #1,184 | 34.3 |
| 1934 | 33 | #1,238 | 31.6 |
| 1933 | 26 | #1,446 | 25.8 |
| 1932 | 29 | #1,393 | 27.2 |
| 1931 | 26 | #1,465 | 24.4 |
| 1930 | 41 | #1,164 | 36.4 |
| 1929 | 40 | #1,177 | 35.8 |
| 1928 | 36 | #1,272 | 31.2 |
| 1927 | 41 | #1,216 | 34.4 |
| 1926 | 40 | #1,224 | 33.7 |
| 1925 | 54 | #1,023 | 44.4 |
| 1924 | 56 | #1,034 | 44.8 |
| 1923 | 42 | #1,198 | 34.8 |
| 1922 | 55 | #1,012 | 45.8 |
| 1921 | 44 | #1,153 | 35.7 |
| 1920 | 67 | #886 | 55.9 |
| 1919 | 57 | #935 | 50.4 |
| 1918 | 44 | #1,110 | 38.0 |
| 1917 | 48 | #1,018 | 44.4 |
| 1916 | 43 | #1,064 | 41.2 |
| 1915 | 43 | #1,015 | 43.7 |
| 1914 | 33 | #1,040 | 43.3 |
| 1913 | 27 | #1,045 | 43.2 |
| 1912 | 31 | #906 | 55.5 |
| 1911 | 16 | #1,129 | 38.2 |
| 1910 | 19 | #1,005 | 47.9 |
| 1909 | 18 | #968 | 51.8 |
| 1908 | 18 | #947 | 53.8 |
| 1907 | 16 | #954 | 50.2 |
| 1906 | 15 | #973 | 50.8 |
| 1905 | 11 | #1,178 | 37.7 |
| 1904 | 13 | #1,015 | 47.2 |
| 1903 | 13 | #985 | 49.6 |
| 1901 | 8 | #1,246 | 33.4 |
| 1900 | 9 | #1,341 | 30.0 |
| 1898 | 9 | #1,190 | 34.8 |
| 1897 | 5 | #1,604 | 21.3 |
| 1894 | 6 | #1,384 | 26.9 |
| 1893 | 5 | #1,478 | 23.5 |
| 1892 | 7 | #1,193 | 33.0 |
| 1887 | 5 | #1,178 | 34.3 |
| 1880 | 6 | #766 | 65.9 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Creola a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Creola has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 78 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Creola: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Creola, and how old are they?
An estimated 374 Americans named Creola and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (22% of everyone recorded); the median is 77 years old and half are between 69 and 85. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 449 people named Creola (449 women and girls, 0 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 517 born in the U.S. The Census count is 13% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Creola born?
The states with the most babies named Creola are Alabama, South Carolina and North Carolina, with 82% of its births recorded by state since 1910; Alabama and South Carolina are not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Alabama | 204 | not ranked | 4.5× |
| South Carolina | 165 | not ranked | 4.8× |
| North Carolina | 103 | not ranked | 1.9× |
| Texas | 47 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Mississippi | 33 | not ranked | 1.0× |
| Louisiana | 14 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| West Virginia | 12 | not ranked | 0.4× |
Where Creola is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Creola is most over-represented in South Carolina: since 1910 it was given 4.8 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Creola with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Creola
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Creola and names like it
- Compare Creola and MozellaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1920sCreola peaked in 1920.
- Alabama’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Creola since 1910.
- The top names of 1920The year the most babies were named Creola.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Creola alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with CMost given first.