How common is the surname Cree?

1,670 people in the United States had the surname Cree in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 184,878 Americans. It ranked 17,014th of 162,253 surnames.

What ethnicity is the surname Cree?

In the 2010 Census, 79% of people named Cree identified as white (not Hispanic), and 13% as American Indian and Alaska Native.

How do you pronounce Cree?

Cree is /kɹiː/, one syllable.

Is the surname Cree getting more or less common?

More common. 1,668 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,670 in 2010, up 0.1%.

The surname Cree

A surname, carried by 1,670 people in the United States.

Pronounced /kɹiː/ 1 syllable Soundex C600

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Cree is more common than 89.5% of them.

Origin

A surname.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 1,670 people named Cree in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 184,878 Americans. That is about the same as in 2000, when the Census counted 1,668.

#17,014

rank among US surnames

1,670

people in 2010

0.6

per 100,000 Americans

+0.1%

change since 2000 (was #15,984)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#17,005	Kebede	1,671	184,767
#17,014	Arocha	1,670	184,878

Who is named Cree

Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census

79% of people named Cree identified as white (not Hispanic), 13% as American Indian and Alaska Native and 3.0% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

White (not Hispanic) 79%
American Indian and Alaska Native 13%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 3.0%
Black (not Hispanic) 2.4%
Two or more races 2.3%
Asian and Pacific Islander 0.5%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Cree

Cree has the Soundex code C600, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code C600.

Questions

How common is the surname Cree?: 1,670 people in the United States had the surname Cree in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 184,878 Americans. It ranked 17,014th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Cree?: In the 2010 Census, 79% of people named Cree identified as white (not Hispanic), and 13% as American Indian and Alaska Native.
How do you pronounce Cree?: Cree is /kɹiː/, one syllable.
Is the surname Cree getting more or less common?: More common. 1,668 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,670 in 2010, up 0.1%.