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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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creek Family Facts

Distribution of creek Families in the US in 1920
Number of creek families
 32-62
 11-31
 1-10
 0
Compiled by Ancestry.com.au from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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N. C. Creek; TN Ronald B. Creek 14
Creek Surname Mark Creek 5
Ruby Jane (Keel) Scott Obituary 1898-1972 kaitysmom 0
Robert/ Susan Jane Bush Creek/ Williamson Co Illinois patharbison74 6
American Indian Creek(s)? reneenefe 7
Grandfather Jacob H Creek hmksun 5
Tabitha Creek b. 1834+ Ryherd jehu36 1
Creek + Gosnell hgosnell 0
Wm. Richmond and Isom Creek kathijo1 9
1st Lt John Creek, 1st Missouri Cavalry - Benjamim Franklin Creek putputput 0
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