Creighton Family History
Creighton Name Meaning
Scottish and Irish: habitational name from Crichton, near
Edinburgh, first recorded c.1128 in the form Crectune,
in 1287 as Crecton, and in 1360 as Creychtona. The name
is probably an early hybrid compound of Old Welsh creic ‘rock’
+ Older Scots tun ‘farm’, ‘settlement’ (Old English
tun). In the British Isles, this spelling of the name is now
found chiefly in northern Ireland; the more usual Scottish forms are
Crichton and Crighton.Irish: sometimes used
for Gaelic Ó Creacháin or Ó Criocháin (see
Crehan 2).English: habitational name from Creighton
in Staffordshire or Creaton in Northamptonshire, both named with
Celtic creig ‘rock’ + Old English tun ‘settlement’.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Name Distribution of Creighton Families
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United States
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Creighton families
 92 - 182  31 - 91 |
 1 - 30  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Creighton families
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107 - 211 36 - 106 |
1 - 35 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Creighton families
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51 - 99 18 - 50 |
1 - 17 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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