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creed Name Meaning and History

  1. Southern Irish: reduced form of Creedon.
  2. English: from the Old English personal name Creoda.
  3. English: habitational name from Creed Farm in Bosham, Sussex, so named with an Old English word crede ‘weeds’, ‘plants’. In part the surname may perhaps have arisen from a place called Creed in Cornwall, named for the patron saint of the church, St. Cride.

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Distribution of creed Families in the US in 1920
Number of creed families
 36-70
 13-35
 1-12
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