Cree
Cree reached its high-water mark in 2022 at number 1,504, and has been recorded 2,253 times in all. It is given to both boys and girls. In 2025 it ranked 3,089th. About 2,200 Crees are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 9.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Cree boys named Cree
Girls and boys called Cree
years more girls than boys years more boys than girls
Cree crossed from girls to boys in 2012, and has stayed there for 14 of the years counted since. At its furthest it was 76% boys, and in 2025 it was 65%.
The girls’ share of each year’s babies of the name, in the 27 years in which at least 25 babies got it. The line touches the middle more often than there are crossings marked: a year or two on the other side is not a name changing hands, and only a move that holds for 5 counted years and reaches 60/40 is recorded as one. All 581 names that changed sex.
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 2,253
- Estimated living today
- 2,200
- Median age today
- 9
- Peak year
- 2022
- Best rank
- 1,504th
- Rank in 2025
- 3,089th
- First recorded
- 1989
- Girls / boys
- 1,124 / 1,129
How old the living Crees are
born that year still alive today
Of the 2,253 babies given the name since 1989, about 2,200 are alive — 99 in every hundred. Roughly 1,600 of them are children and 0 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2016 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Notable Crees
- Cree Summer (born 1969)American actress
- Cree Cicchino (born 2002)American actress
People named Cree with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Cree is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Cree is most concentrated in Georgia (5.6×), Texas (3.4×), North Carolina (2.9×), Virginia (2.2×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 2022
The most popular boys’ names the year Cree peaked:
Cree elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| England and Wales boys | Cree | 203 | 785th |
| England and Wales girls | Cree | 21 | 2,783rd |
| Scotland boys | Cree | 14 | 533rd |
| Ireland boys | Cree | 11 | 572nd |
| Scotland girls | Cree | 7 | 532nd |
| Northern Ireland boys | Cree | 3 | 404th |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Related names
Cree against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
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Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.