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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.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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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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Threads: 119 - Messages: 316
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Trying to find my family Sharon Rae Creed 2
Deposition of G. M. Etter, 1889 GraingerArchives 0
Creed DNA Volunteer kbrown02 0
Joseph M. Creed Surry North Carolina heatherkuhn_1 5
Austin-Margaret CREED shocker76 0
Creed family from Co Limerick jenny creed 9
first husband of lizzie creed m. james van dyke? ashleyrae625 0
CREED FAMILY irenedebauche 2
Orleana Amanda/Illinois glforbus 5
CREED nyladepauk 38
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