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The creech Surname

creech Name Meaning and History

  1. English: possibly a topographic name from Middle English crich(e) ‘creek’, but more likely a habitational name from Creech St. Michael in Somerset or East Creech in Dorset, both named with a Celtic element cr{u:_}g ‘mound’, ‘hill’.
  2. Scottish: habitational name from Creich in Fife.
  3. Possibly an Americanized spelling of the German names mentioned at Creach 2.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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The creech name in History

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Distribution of creech Families in the US in 1920
Number of creech families
 123-243
 42-122		 1-41
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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