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How popular is the name Cressida?
Births per year, rank history and how many Cressidas are alive today.
Cressida (female) is a rare girls' name in England and Wales, ranked 2788th in 2025 and given to 9 babies. The name peaked in 2015, when 28 babies were given the name, the 1204th most popular that year. It has declined since 2015; the 2025 figure is roughly 32% of its peak.
The Cressida you are most likely to meet is around 10 years old. Half of all Cressidas born in England and Wales are between 7 and 25, and there are at least 300 of them alive today. If you walk into a room of 100 females, there's less than a 1% chance that anyone will be called Cressida - on average, only one in every 1,050 such rooms contains a Cressida.
How many babies are named Cressida each year?
Where does Cressida rank among girls' names?
Where this data comes from
Figures from 1996 onwards are the Office for National Statistics' annual baby-name registrations for England and Wales, which record every name given to three or more babies in a year. Figures before 1996 are estimates: the ONS published only top-100 rankings at ten-year intervals back to 1904, so counts for those years are modelled from the rankings, calibrated against Douglas Galbi's long-run research into English name frequencies, and shown with an uncertainty band. Estimates of living bearers combine these birth figures with national life tables and ONS mid-year population estimates.
One limit worth naming: these figures count names as registered at birth. Anyone who changes their name later in life - including trans people, and anyone who adopts a different name by deed poll or simply by use - is not reflected here. Birth registrations record where a name began, not the name a person lives with.
Common questions
When was the name Cressida most popular?
Cressida peaked in 2015, when 28 babies in England and Wales were given the name.
How many people are called Cressida?
At least 300 people named Cressida born in England and Wales are alive today.
How old is the typical Cressida?
Most living Cressidas are between 7 and 25; the most common age is about 10.
Is Cressida becoming more or less popular?
Rising: numbers have been climbing in recent years.