Meaning not yet researched.
Cree: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 39 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,503 in 2021.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,503 in 2021; #3,096 in 2025. About 65% of babies named Cree in 2025 were boys.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#3,096 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2021, at #1,503.
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Cree: US boys and girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 39 boys in 2025. Peak: #1,503 in 2021 · most boys in one year: 120 (2022).
In 2025, 39 US boys were named Cree, making it the 3,096th most common boys’ name of the year, down 1,097 places from #1,999 in 2024. That is 38 fewer than the 77 boys named Cree in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #1,503, reached in 2021. The most boys given the name in a single year was 120, in 2022. For comparison, it was #2,151 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
In 2025, 21 US girls were named Cree, making it the 5,760th most common girls’ name of the year, down 1,068 places from #4,692 in 2024. That is 8 fewer than the 29 girls named Cree in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #1,671, reached in 1991. That year also had the most girls given the name: 89. For comparison, it was #3,442 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Cree in 37 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1989 with 38 babies. In all, 2,253 US babies have been given the name, 50% of them girls and 50% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 817 babies named Cree.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 760 US boys were named Cree; the busiest of those years was 2022, with 120. In 2025 that was about 1 in 43,797 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Kree (1,145 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Creo, Krey and Crea are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Rare spellings summarised here: Creo (22), Krey (16), Crea (11), Krea (5), Kreo (5), Creu (5), Kreu (5).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Cree in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 21 | #5,760 | 39 | #3,096 |
| 2024 | 29 | #4,692 | 77 | #1,999 |
| 2023 | 46 | #3,437 | 87 | #1,836 |
| 2022 | 38 | #3,906 | 120 | #1,507 |
| 2021 | 49 | #3,260 | 118 | #1,503 |
| 2020 | 46 | #3,350 | 82 | #1,815 |
| 2019 | 37 | #3,941 | 62 | #2,237 |
| 2018 | 37 | #3,941 | 69 | #2,069 |
| 2017 | 35 | #4,162 | 47 | #2,642 |
| 2016 | 34 | #4,275 | 59 | #2,259 |
| 2015 | 46 | #3,442 | 64 | #2,151 |
| 2014 | 46 | #3,446 | 73 | #1,963 |
| 2013 | 48 | #3,329 | 56 | #2,288 |
| 2012 | 21 | #6,163 | 47 | #2,604 |
| 2011 | 11 | #9,880 | 10 | #7,612 |
| 2010 | 8 | #12,551 | 7 | #9,892 |
| 2009 | 5 | #17,938 | — | — |
| 2008 | 8 | #12,856 | 5 | #12,890 |
| 2007 | 13 | #9,137 | — | — |
| 2006 | 17 | #7,226 | 8 | #8,875 |
| 2005 | 12 | #9,022 | 12 | #6,300 |
| 2004 | 16 | #7,157 | 5 | #11,694 |
| 2003 | 24 | #5,120 | — | — |
| 2002 | 23 | #5,123 | 6 | #9,599 |
| 2001 | 26 | #4,590 | — | — |
| 2000 | 24 | #4,824 | 12 | #5,634 |
| 1999 | 23 | #4,758 | 6 | #8,908 |
| 1998 | 10 | #8,721 | 9 | #6,415 |
| 1997 | 20 | #5,064 | — | — |
| 1996 | 25 | #4,211 | 7 | #7,286 |
| 1995 | 30 | #3,604 | 9 | #6,009 |
| 1994 | 27 | #3,917 | 5 | #9,063 |
| 1993 | 38 | #3,061 | 9 | #5,855 |
| 1992 | 54 | #2,397 | 14 | #4,142 |
| 1991 | 89 | #1,671 | — | — |
| 1990 | 55 | #2,299 | — | — |
| 1989 | 33 | #3,187 | 5 | #8,125 |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).