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
Showing
- 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
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Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.
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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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First appearance
1989
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.
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Momentum · boys
Falling
- 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)
Rise & fade · boys
32 yrs to peak
- Debuted 1989
- Peaked 2021 at #1,503 (118 births)
- Births halved by 2025, 4 yrs later
Top of the charts · boys
Never in the top 1,000
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
Share of babies · boys
1 in 14,550
- 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
Era · boys
The 2020s
- 46.3% of all boys named Cree (523) were born in this decade
Girls or boys?
Flipped in 2012
- 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.
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