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creek Name Meaning and History

  1. English: habitational name for someone from North or South Creake in Norfolk, named from Celtic creig ‘cliff’, ‘rock’.
  2. English: from Middle English creke ‘basket’ (Old French creche), hence a metonymic occupational name for a basket maker.
  3. Americanized spelling of German Krieg, German and Jewish Krick, or Dutch Kriek, a metonymic occupational name for a fruit grower or dealer, from Middle Dutch krieke ‘cherry’.

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

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Distribution of creek Families in the US in 1920
Number of creek families
 32-62
 11-31		 1-10
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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