Given name
Crescens
“increasing”·“rising”·“becoming more visible”
Crescens is used as a given name.
Original GreekΚρησκης
Meaning & origin
What it means
As a biblical name, Crescens means “increasing,” “rising” or “becoming more visible.”
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Where it comes from
Crescens is a biblical name from Latin.
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In the Bible
In the Bible, the name Crescens appears in 2 Timothy 4:10.
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Crescens’s family of names
Crescens has a feminine form in Kreszenz.
The ring: across languages.
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Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
See also 1
Names our sources mention alongside this one. They are related in story or meaning, not forms of this name.
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