Cree

A boys’ name of Algonquian origin, meaning a Native American people and language.

Babies a year
23
England and Wales, 2025
Rarity
Rare
among names in use
US popularity
—
outside the top 1000
UK popularity
#1226
23 babies

Cree by the numbers

In 2025, 23 babies in England and Wales were named Cree. In the US, 82 were, though that figure is from 2017, the most recent full year we hold.

For the size of the two countries, it is given noticeably more often in England and Wales than in the US.

Its American peak was 89 babies in 1991, making it a 1990s name.

Spelled almost the same

Other names in the records within a letter or two of Cree. Close spellings are not always related names, but they are usually worth seeing together.

  • Crewincrease or growth; a group of people344 in the US (2017)
  • CreedI believe; from Latin credo194 in the US (2017)
  • Crewefrom a place name, possibly related to crew or crook5 in England and Wales (2025)
  • Crue23 in England and Wales (2025)
  • Creek20 in the US (2017)
  • Cyree8 in the US (2017)

Sounds like Cree

Names that are said the same way as Cree, however they are written. Sounding alike does not mean they share a history.

  • Kree50 in the US (2017)

Names about as common as Cree

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