Cresencio — boys' name
879 babies named Cresencio in U.S. Social Security records since 1913, with the highest year being 1929. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
13% of everyone ever named Cresencio was born in this single decade.
20 babies were named Cresencio in 1929 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Cresencio
The Social Security Administration has registered 879 babies named Cresencio between 1913 and 2019, spanning 107 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Cresencio currently falls outside the top 1,000 boys' names for 2019. The name reached its historical peak in 1929, when 20 babies received it in a single year.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Cresencio performed strongest in the 1940s, accumulating 117 births during that ten-year window. Across the 11 decades of recorded activity, Cresencio shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Texas, which accounts for 331 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by California. In total, SSA state-level files list Cresencio in 2 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.
No etymological entry is currently available for Cresencio in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 879 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.
Cresencio at a glance
Last recorded 2019Peak year
Current rank
Active since
Cresencio popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2019–1913
- Peak year (1929)
- 20
- Annual births at peak — across 107 years of records
No longer in the modern top-1000 — last recorded 2019.
879 total births across 107 years of SSA records. Peaked in 1929 with 20 births in a single year.
Cresencio by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 1940s
- 117 births that decade — 13% of Cresencio's all-time total
Cresencio decade highlights
- Peak decade 117 births
- Runner-up 109 births
- Modern era share 2010s + 2020s
- Decades tracked with recorded births
1940s was Cresencio's strongest decade
117 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 13% of all-time use.
Cresencio by state
Where Cresencio concentrates geographically — total births since 1913
| Rank | State | Visual share | Births | Share of total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | Texas | | 331 | 37.7% |
| #2 | California | | 14 | 1.6% |
331 of 879 births nationwide. Compared to a flat distribution across 2 reporting states.
Top 5 states
- Texas 37.7% of nationwide
- California 1.6% of nationwide
Recorded in 2 of 51 SSA jurisdictions
Texas accounts for 37.7% of all recorded births nationwide — a strong regional concentration for this name.
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Data Sources
Data as of 2024. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications — National Data, 1913–2019 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames). National-level data includes all names with 5 or more occurrences in a given year.
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names — State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip). Includes all names with 5 or more occurrences per state per year; rarer names are excluded for privacy.