The creed Surname
creed Name Meaning and History
- Southern Irish: reduced form of Creedon.
- English: from the Old English personal name Creoda.
- 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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