Cree
#5,722 for girls in 2025, 21 births · #3,089 for boys in 2025, 39 births
Given to boys 50.1% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 2021 · 118 births
- Debut · boys
- 5 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 1,129since 1989
Cree over time
Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #5,722 | 21 | #3,089 | 39 |
| 2024 | #4,669 | 29 | #1,997 | 77 |
| 2023 | #3,428 | 46 | #1,832 | 87 |
| 2022 | #3,893 | 38 | #1,504 | 120 |
| 2021 | #3,250 | 49 | #1,503 | 118 |
| 2020 | #3,338 | 46 | #1,815 | 82 |
| 2019 | #3,923 | 37 | #2,228 | 62 |
| 2018 | #3,918 | 37 | #2,065 | 69 |
| 2017 | #4,147 | 35 | #2,637 | 47 |
| 2016 | #4,250 | 34 | #2,255 | 59 |
| 2015 | #3,429 | 46 | #2,145 | 64 |
| 2014 | #3,425 | 46 | #1,959 | 73 |
| 2013 | #3,314 | 48 | #2,278 | 56 |
| 2012 | #6,110 | 21 | #2,594 | 47 |
| 2011 | #9,723 | 11 | #7,502 | 10 |
| 2010 | #12,276 | 8 | #9,693 | 7 |
| 2009 | #17,294 | 5 | — | |
| 2008 | #12,579 | 8 | #12,553 | 5 |
| 2007 | #9,007 | 13 | — | |
| 2006 | #7,142 | 17 | #8,732 | 8 |
| 2005 | #8,883 | 12 | #6,226 | 12 |
| 2004 | #7,077 | 16 | #11,356 | 5 |
| 2003 | #5,092 | 24 | — | |
| 2002 | #5,086 | 23 | #9,392 | 6 |
| 2001 | #4,564 | 26 | — | |
| 2000 | #4,791 | 24 | #5,588 | 12 |
| 1999 | #4,718 | 23 | #8,704 | 6 |
| 1998 | #8,584 | 10 | #6,314 | 9 |
| 1997 | #5,010 | 20 | — | |
| 1996 | #4,184 | 25 | #7,136 | 7 |
| 1995 | #3,585 | 30 | #5,928 | 9 |
| 1994 | #3,892 | 27 | #8,800 | 5 |
| 1993 | #3,052 | 38 | #5,771 | 9 |
| 1992 | #2,386 | 54 | #4,114 | 14 |
| 1991 | #1,669 | 89 | — | |
| 1990 | #2,289 | 55 | — | |
| 1989 | #3,165 | 33 | #7,905 | 5 |
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The first year at least five boys were named Cree! It came in at #7,905, and was given to 5 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1989–1991, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
See more about Cree
- 1,092 spots since 2024 (#1,997 → #3,089)
- 1,274 spots since 2020 (#1,815 → #3,089)
- 944 spots since 2015 (#2,145 → #3,089)
- Debuted 1989
- Peaked 2021 at #1,503 (118 births)
- Births halved by 2025, 4 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 14,550 boys born in 2022 were named Cree (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 43,797 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
- Its best rank, #1,503 in 2021, was only 1 in 14,826 (0.01%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 46.3% of all boys named Cree (523) were born in this decade
- Mostly girls until 2011, mostly boys since
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1980s | 5 | #7,905 (1989) | #7,905 |
| 1990s | 59 | #4,114 (1992) | #6,681 |
| 2000s | 48 | #5,588 (2000) | #8,975 |
| 2010s | 494 | #1,959 (2014) | #3,536 |
| 2020s | 523 | #1,503 (2021) | #1,957 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Cree in 2022
Top girls' names in 2022
Top boys' names in 2022
More about 2022
girls
1,640,131 girls got a published name in 2022; 1 in 43,161 of them was named Cree, which outranked 78.1% of the 17,760 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.4% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #3,827Zeppelin39
- #3,827Zorah39
- #3,827Zyanna39
- #3,893Cree38
- #3,893Aarvi38
- #3,893Adamari38
- #3,893Adamaris38
- #3,963Abigael37
- #3,963Abigale37
- #3,963Adelie37
Tied with 69 names at #3,893; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,746,008 boys got a published name in 2022; 1 in 14,550 of them was named Cree, which outranked 89.5% of the 14,333 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.7% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #1,496Kaizer121
- #1,496Ramsey121
- #1,496Tyrone121
- #1,504Cree120
- #1,504Aamir120
- #1,504Alexzander120
- #1,504Brexton120
- #1,516Antony119
- #1,516Bailey119
- #1,516Brentley119
Tied with 11 names at #1,504; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.