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Cree vs Cregg

American parents have registered 2,253 Crees since 1880, against 179 Creggs. Cree is still ahead, with 60 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Cree against Cregg, 1880 to 2025 0 50 100 150 200 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Cree Cregg

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Of the 60 years in which either name was published, Cree for 37 years and Cregg for 23 years. The lead changed hands once.

Side by side

  Cree Cregg
Total US births 2,253179
Most in one year 16712
Babies in 2025 60under 5
Estimated living today 2,200140
Median age today 959
Peak year 20221958
Best rank 1,504th boys2,370th boys
Rank in 2025 3,089thunranked
First recorded 19891951
Girls / boys 1,124 / 1,1290 / 179

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Creggs alive today are over 59; half the Crees are over 9. That is 50 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Cree and Cregg.