Cree

maleStatistical record

What official birth registration shows about Cree: which national registrars published it, in which years, and how its recorded position changed.

No researched meaning, origin or pronunciation yet — what that means.

Cree: Recorded since 1996, its highest recorded position is #404, reached in 2024.

3registrars recorded it
22times a registrar ranked it
29years from first to last
#404highest recorded position
4groupings it qualifies for

Region

Falling

among girls in England and Wales · 1996–2008

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England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
1996	#3126
1998	#3848
1999	#3900
2000	#3912
2001	#2783
2008	#5545

VerifiedSource: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales.Confidence: high.

See all England and Wales names · Source: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales

What the data shows

FallingEngland and Wales · Girls

Recorded in official data among boys in England and Wales in 12 of the 24 years from 2001 to 2024.

In 2024: #404 among boys in Northern Ireland, #785 among boys in England and Wales.

Official data from 3 national registrars across 3 regions, 1996–2024 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1996
First recorded at #3126 among girls in England and Wales in 1996 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
England and Wales · Girls
Most recent2024
Most recently recorded at #785 among boys in England and Wales, in 2024.
England and Wales · Boys

Cree appears in 3 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Boys, with 12 ranked years and 180 births registered; the earliest is England and Wales · Girls, from 1996.

Cree across 3 official records

Each registrar publishes its own list, so these figures are read down a row, never across one. A position in one country is not comparable with a position in another, and Namewise never combines them into a single ranking. The birth counts do not compare across rows either, for a different reason: England and Wales registers roughly thirty times as many births a year as Northern Ireland, so a larger total says which registrar recorded it as much as how widely the name was given.

Cree's first, highest and most recent recorded position in each official list, with the number of births each registrar registered with the name and its largest single year
Published list	First recorded	Highest	Most recent	Years recorded	Births registered	Most in one year
England and Wales · Boys	#3134 (2001)	#785 (2024)	#785 (2024)	12 of 24	180 (2001–2024)	43 (2024)
England and Wales · Girls	#3126 (1996)	#2783 (2001)	#5545 (2008)	6 of 13	21 (1996–2008)	5 (2001)
Republic of Ireland · Boys	#741 (2020)	#572 (2022)	#770 (2023)	3 of 4	11 (2020–2023)	5 (2022)

Cree by decade in England and Wales · Boys

Births registered with the name in each decade of this one list, with the number of years the list covers in that decade. Bars are scaled on births a year, which is the figure that compares between decades — a decade the list only partly covers has a smaller total without being a quieter decade. Figures belong to this registrar alone and do not carry to another.

Births registered with Cree in England and Wales · Boys, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
2000s	9	3 of 10	3
2010s	17	4 of 10	4
2020sbusiest	154	5 of 10	31

Across England and Wales · Boys, the 2020s were its busiest decade — the 5 years of it this list covers, averaging 31 births a year.

See the names England and Waleshas recorded the most births with →

Cree appears in

Groupings this name qualifies for under their own stated rules, from the same official statistics shown above.

Popularity data

Official popularity data is available for 3 regions, from 1996 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #404 in Northern Ireland in 2024.

Cree's recorded popularity observations by year, region and administrative category, including rank, registered births, source confidence and when each region's data was last reviewed.
Year	Region	Category	Rank	Births registered	Confidence	Status
2024	England and Wales	male	#785	43	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	male	#843	38	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	male	#810	39	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	male	#1023	28	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	male	#2960	6	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	male	#3996	4	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	male	#3373	5	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	male	#3895	4	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	male	#3822	4	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	female	#5545	3	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	male	#3651	3	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	male	#3225	3	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	female	#2783	5	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	male	#3134	3	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	female	#3912	3	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	female	#3900	3	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	female	#3848	3	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	female	#3126	4	High	Verified
2024	Northern Ireland	male	#404	3	High	Verified
2023	Republic of Ireland	male	#770	3	High	Verified
2022	Republic of Ireland	male	#572	5	High	Verified
2020	Republic of Ireland	male	#741	3	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
Northern Ireland hub — collected by NISRA
Republic of Ireland hub — collected by CSO Ireland

See methodology and data sources for how popularity data is collected and what "confidence" means.

What the record shows

Recorded by 3 registrars between 1996 and 2024, ranked in 17 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #404, first reached in 2024.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 43 births, registered in England and Wales in 2024.

1 registrar publishes it in more than one category list, holding a place in each for at least five years — an observation about those lists rather than about the name.

Its record falls into 7 separate stretches, with a longest absence of 4 years.

A second registrar first ranked it in 2020, and 28 years separate the first registrar to record it from the last.

Every figure here is counted from the seven official registrars Namewise holds. A position is only ever a place within the list that published it, and a record that thins or stops is a fact about what registrars printed — never about how many children received the name.

4decades with a ranked yearRecorded in 4 decades →
5 yearslongest unbroken run of ranked years
7separate stretches the record falls into6 to 9 separate stretches →
4 yearslongest absence inside the recorded period4 to 9 years missing →
#404position in 2024, its most recent recorded year
28 yearsyears between the first and last registrar to record itAcross 21 to 40 years →
1registrars publishing it in more than one category listIn one registrar's lists →
43births registered in its largest year, 202425 to 49 births →

Where to go next

Records with a comparable body of evidence, so the catalogue can be read outward from this one. Each group states the rule it was selected by.

Next in the catalogue

The records either side of this one alphabetically.

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Craig · #6, 72y
Creed · #404, 10y
Cressida · #1204, 29y

A comparable record

Records held by the same 3 registrars, over a similar number of ranked years, whose highest position is closest to this one. A similar body of evidence — never a claim that the names themselves are alike.

Aira · #404, 19y
Ren · #404, 21y
Danas · #403, 17y
Jokubas · #403, 18y

Also first recorded in the 1990s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 1990 and 1999.

Albi · #404, 26y
Augustus · #404, 29y
Aydin · #404, 29y
Blayne · #404, 23y

Cree was ranked #404 in Northern Ireland · Boys in 2024. These are the names immediately either side of it on that published list — a fact about the registrar's own output, not a similarity judgement.

Cree and the names beside it

Two names in the same published list are measured on the same scale, in the same year, by the same registrar — so these are positions that genuinely passed each other, not a similarity judgement. Drawn from the 2,573 names with a recorded popularity standing (common, familiar, uncommon), so a name outside that set could have passed Cree without appearing here.

Cree moved ahead of

Tor Compare
In 2020 they stood at #2960 and #2960 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2021 that had become #1023 and #3990.
Aria Compare
In 2020 they stood at #3996 and #3449 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2021 that had become #1023 and #3451.
Isak Compare
In 2020 they stood at #2960 and #2404 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2021 that had become #1023 and #3451.
Kelly Compare
In 2020 they stood at #3996 and #3449 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2021 that had become #1023 and #3451.

Moved ahead of Cree

Luca Compare
In 1997 they stood at #3126 and #3795 in England and Wales · Girls; by 1998 that had become #3848 and #2407.

Moved the opposite way to Cree

Aaron Compare
Between 2001 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Cree went from #3134 to #785 while Aaron went from #40 to #154.
Adam Compare
Between 2001 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Cree went from #3134 to #785 while Adam went from #16 to #35.
Alan Compare
Between 2001 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Cree went from #3134 to #785 while Alan went from #270 to #592.
Alex Compare
Between 2001 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Cree went from #3134 to #785 while Alex went from #45 to #171.

Moved the same way as Cree

Albie Compare
Between 2001 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Cree went from #3134 to #785 and Albie from #728 to #19.
Alfie Compare
Between 2001 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Cree went from #3134 to #785 and Alfie from #54 to #16.
Alfred Compare
Between 2001 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Cree went from #3134 to #785 and Alfred from #149 to #81.
Archie Compare
Between 2001 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Cree went from #3134 to #785 and Archie from #60 to #10.

What's not yet available

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Nicknames and spelling variants

Absence from this list does not mean the name isn't genuinely meaningful or widely used — only that Namewise hasn't sourced and reviewed that content yet. Absence from a specific year or geography above does not prove zero use there either; official statistics only publish names above a minimum threshold.

Official popularity data is available for 3 regions, from 1996 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #404 in Northern Ireland in 2024. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Cree

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Popularity journey

Cree across 3 official records

Cree by decade in England and Wales · Boys

Cree appears in

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Cree across 3 official records

Cree by decade in England and Wales · Boys

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