Cree
Recorded 1989–2025 · United States
Cree was most popular in 2021, when 167 American babies were given the name — ranking #2,485 that year. In 2025 it ranked #4,960, with 60 births. Across 1880–2025 the Social Security Administration has recorded 2,253 people named Cree.
Cree over time
How old is the name Cree?
Cree first appears in Social Security Administration records in 1989, which makes it about 36 years old as a recorded American name. It has been recorded in 37 of the 37 years since.
How many people are named Cree?
The Social Security Administration has recorded 2,253 American births named Cree between 1880 and 2025. That is recorded US births, not a world population — it counts people issued a Social Security number at birth in the United States. Of those, roughly 2,230 are estimated to be alive today.
How many babies were named Cree in 2025?
60 American babies were named Cree in 2025, ranking #4,960 that year.
Is Cree getting more or less popular?
Cree is rising. Across 2021–2025 it averaged 125 births a year, against 84 a year across 2011–2015 — a change of +48% over the decade.
Measured on recorded births. American births overall have fallen since 2007, so most established names lose births over any recent decade — a name can shed births and still hold its rank. Compare the rank above, which is measured against the other names of the same year.
Is Cree a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Across the whole record Cree is a unisex name — 49.9% of the 2,253 Americans given it were girls and 50.1% were boys. It changed hands: since 2012 it has gone mainly to boys, having gone mainly to girls before that. In births since 2016 it is 33% girls and 67% boys.
Counted from every US birth the Social Security Administration recorded under this name, so it reflects use rather than opinion. A name given to fewer than five babies of one sex in a year is withheld at source and is not counted.
How old is someone named Cree?
Roughly 2,230 Americans named Cree are alive today — 99% of everyone ever recorded with the name. The median is 10 years old, and half are between 5 and 23.
An estimate, not a count. Recorded births are carried forward through the Social Security Administration’s 2023 period life table, by age and sex. That table describes mortality in one recent year, so it credits the oldest cohorts with today’s survival rather than the harsher rates they actually lived through — the further back a name peaked, the more this will overstate how many remain. It counts people issued a Social Security number at birth, not immigrants who arrived later.
Where Cree is most concentrated
How much more common the name is in each state than across the country as a whole.
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Source: U.S.A. Social Security Administration. Years 1880–2025. namelegacy.org