Explore the Family Name Crees

The meaning of Crees

English (Somerset and Wiltshire): variant of Creese.

Dictionary of American Family Names, 2nd edition, © Oxford University Press, 2022.

How common is the last name Crees in the United States?

Based on the Decennial U.S. Census, the popularity of the surname Crees has seen a decrease between the years 2000 and 2010. In 2000, it was ranked as the 51,233rd most common surname in the United States, but by 2010 it had fallen to the 57,781st spot, representing a decline of approximately 12.78%. The number of individuals carrying the surname also dropped during this period, falling from 382 to 352, a decrease of nearly 7.85%. As a proportion of the population, those with the surname Crees represented only 0.14 per 100,000 people in 2000, and this ratio decreased further to 0.12 by 2010, marking a reduction of 14.29%.

	2000	2010	Change
Rank	#51,233	#57,781	-12.78%
Count	382	352	-7.85%
Proportion per 100k	0.14	0.12	-14.29%

Race and Ethnicity of people with the last name Crees

In terms of ethnicity according to the Decennial U.S. Census, the majority of individuals with the surname Crees identified as White, although there was a slight decrease in this group between 2000 and 2010, from 95.81% to 90.63%. Meanwhile, the percentage of those identifying as Hispanic saw a significant increase of 97.22% during the same period, rising from 2.88% to 5.68%. There were no records of individuals with this surname identifying as Asian/Pacific Islander, Black, or American Indian and Alaskan Native in either census year. However, there was a small emergence of individuals identifying as belonging to two or more races in 2010, accounting for 1.42% of those with the Crees surname.

	2000	2010	Change
White	95.81%	90.63%	-5.41%
Hispanic	2.88%	5.68%	97.22%
Two or More Races	0%	1.42%	0%
Asian/Pacific Islander	0%	0%	0%
Black	0%	0%	0%
American Indian and Alaskan Native	0%	0%	0%