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 2024
Top girls' names in 2024
Top boys' names in 2024
More about 2024
girls
1,620,190 girls got a published name in 2024; 1 in 55,869 of them was named Cree, which outranked 73.7% of the 17,726 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.1% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #4,560Zianna30
- #4,560Ziggy30
- #4,560Zury30
- #4,669Cree29
- #4,669Aalani29
- #4,669Adia29
- #4,669Alahna29
- #4,772Aeryn28
- #4,772Aina28
- #4,772Alysia28
Tied with 102 names at #4,669; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,722,888 boys got a published name in 2024; 1 in 22,375 of them was named Cree, which outranked 86.0% of the 14,294 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.0% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #1,985Shulem78
- #1,985Taysom78
- #1,985Yariel78
- #1,997Cree77
- #1,997Copeland77
- #1,997Cortez77
- #1,997Daryl77
- #2,012Adin76
- #2,012Ames76
- #2,012Asad76
Tied with 14 names at #1,997; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.