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.
Where Cree is popular in 1989
No state had 5 or more boys named Cree in 1989, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.
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 1989
Top girls' names in 1989
Top boys' names in 1989
More about 1989
girls
1,843,552 girls got a published name in 1989; 1 in 55,865 of them was named Cree, which outranked 78.2% of the 14,550 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 16.9% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #3,104Zaida34
- #3,104Zoila34
- #3,104Zoraida34
- #3,165Cree33
- #3,165Abbi33
- #3,165Adreana33
- #3,165Alta33
- #3,253Alejandro32
- #3,253Allisa32
- #3,253Allyn32
Tied with 87 names at #3,165; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
2,000,928 boys got a published name in 1989; 1 in 400,186 of them was named Cree, which outranked 14.4% of the 9,232 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 20.4% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
Tied with 1,327 names at #7,905; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.