Cree: name meaning, origin & popularity
- Meaning
- “from the Cree people”
- Origin
- Unknown
- Say it
- KREE · 1 syllable
- Used for
- Both (50% girls, 50% boys since 1880)
Used as a transferred name from the Indigenous ethnonym Cree, itself from French Cris. As a given name it is modern and not from a traditional personal-name etymology.
How popular is Cree?
Babies named Cree in 2024105
2024 rank#2,018 boys
Peak year2021
Total US babies since 18802,192
Cree is rising: use over the last five years is 2.3× what it was a decade earlier.
Names like Cree
Variants, related forms and names with the same roots.
Cree questions
What does the name Cree mean?
Cree means "from the Cree people". It comes from Unknown. Used as a transferred name from the Indigenous ethnonym Cree, itself from French Cris. As a given name it is modern and not from a traditional personal-name etymology.
Is Cree a boy or girl name?
Cree is used for both: about 50% of US babies named Cree since 1880 were girls.
How popular is Cree?
105 US babies were named Cree in 2024. Its peak year was 2021.
How do you pronounce Cree?
Cree is usually pronounced KREE.
Birth counts: US Social Security Administration national data, 1880–2024 (names given to 5+ babies of a sex in a year). How we write meanings.