Given name
Crescent
“one who creates; increasing; growing”
Crescent is used as a given name. One French interpretation is “one who creates; increasing; growing.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
One French interpretation is “one who creates; increasing; growing.”
Where it comes from
An origin associated with this spelling is French.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1971. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Crescent through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 117
- 0 boys · 117 girls
- Most popular year
- 1977
- 15 babies
- 2025
- 7
- #12,190 for girls
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 7 U.S. birth records for girls, ranking No. 12,190 among girls’ names. The recent annual counts are too incomplete to establish a ten-year comparison. Its largest published annual count for girls was 15 in 1977. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 271 as a first name in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Crescent’s family of names
Crescent has a related form in Crescentia. Crescent has a related form in Creissant. Crescent has a related form in Crescant.
The ring: nicknames and forms.
Nicknames & forms 9
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
- Crescentiavariant
- Crescantvariant
- Cressentvariant
- Cressantvariant
- Crescencevariant
- Creissantvariant
- Cressentyavariant
- Cressentiavariant
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