The creech Surname
creech Name Meaning and History
- 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’.
- Scottish: habitational name from Creich in Fife.
- 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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