Cree
Cree is given to both girls and boys: 21 girls and 39 boys were given it in 2025 (#5,759 among girls’ names and #3,095 among boys’, #4,969 among all names counting both); 2,253 Americans have been recorded with it since 1989 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,230 Americans named Cree and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 10 years old and half are between 5 and 23.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Cree by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Cree?
#3,095 among boys’ names, 2025
Cree fell from #2,151 in 2015 to #3,095 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 33.4 to 22.8 per million.
167 babies in 2021, the peak
Cree peaked in 2021, when 167 babies were given it (118 boys, #1,503 among boys’ names). The 60 births of 2025 (girls and boys) are 36% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 21 | #5,759 | 39 | #3,095 |
| 2024 | 29 | #4,690 | 77 | #1,999 |
| 2023 | 46 | #3,437 | 87 | #1,836 |
| 2022 | 38 | #3,904 | 120 | #1,507 |
| 2021 | 49 | #3,260 | 118 | #1,503 |
| 2020 | 46 | #3,350 | 82 | #1,815 |
| 2019 | 37 | #3,940 | 62 | #2,236 |
| 2018 | 37 | #3,940 | 69 | #2,068 |
| 2017 | 35 | #4,161 | 47 | #2,641 |
| 2016 | 34 | #4,274 | 59 | #2,259 |
Every recorded year (37)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 46 | #3,442 | 64 | #2,151 |
| 2014 | 46 | #3,444 | 73 | #1,962 |
| 2013 | 48 | #3,328 | 56 | #2,287 |
| 2012 | 21 | #6,160 | 47 | #2,603 |
| 2011 | 11 | #9,876 | 10 | #7,605 |
| 2010 | 8 | #12,545 | 7 | #9,885 |
| 2009 | 5 | #17,932 | under 5 | |
| 2008 | 8 | #12,851 | 5 | #12,883 |
| 2007 | 13 | #9,133 | under 5 | |
| 2006 | 17 | #7,224 | 8 | #8,869 |
| 2005 | 12 | #9,017 | 12 | #6,294 |
| 2004 | 16 | #7,152 | 5 | #11,687 |
| 2003 | 24 | #5,115 | under 5 | |
| 2002 | 23 | #5,119 | 6 | #9,592 |
| 2001 | 26 | #4,585 | under 5 | |
| 2000 | 24 | #4,819 | 12 | #5,626 |
| 1999 | 23 | #4,753 | 6 | #8,901 |
| 1998 | 10 | #8,715 | 9 | #6,408 |
| 1997 | 20 | #5,060 | under 5 | |
| 1996 | 25 | #4,206 | 7 | #7,279 |
| 1995 | 30 | #3,599 | 9 | #6,003 |
| 1994 | 27 | #3,912 | 5 | #9,057 |
| 1993 | 38 | #3,056 | 9 | #5,849 |
| 1992 | 54 | #2,392 | 14 | #4,135 |
| 1991 | 89 | #1,665 | under 5 | |
| 1990 | 55 | #2,294 | under 5 | |
| 1989 | 33 | #3,181 | 5 | #8,118 |
Ranks: girls’ names and boys’ names ranked separately in each year’s SSA file; “under 5” is a year SSA did not list the name for that sex.
Is Cree a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 2,253 Americans recorded as Cree, 50% are girls and 50% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Cree: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Cree, and how old are they?
2,230 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 2,253 Americans ever recorded as Cree. The median Cree alive today is 10 years old; half are between 5 and 23.
The 2020 Census counted 1,403 people named Cree (839 women and girls, 564 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,518 born in the U.S. The Census count is 8% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 390 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 383 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 1,460 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Cree born?
The states with the most babies named Cree are Texas, Georgia and North Carolina, with 51% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 127 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Georgia | 76 | not ranked | 1.0× |
| North Carolina | 41 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| New York | 40 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| California | 29 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Virginia | 24 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Illinois | 23 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Pennsylvania | 22 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Tennessee | 22 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Ohio | 18 | not ranked | 0.2× |
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among boys’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Cree with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 2 names spelled alike, given to 3,398 babies since 1880, Cree is the most given (66% of them). In 2025 it was given to 60 of their 120 babies (50%), again the most given.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Cree
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Cree and names like it
- Compare Cree and KreeBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sCree peaked in 2021.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Cree since 1910.
- The top names of 2021The year the most babies were named Cree.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Cree alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with CMost given first.