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creek Name Meaning and History

English: habitational name for someone from North or South Creake in Norfolk, named from Celtic creig ‘cliff’, ‘rock’.
English: from Middle English creke ‘basket’ (Old French creche), hence a metonymic occupational name for a basket maker.
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

Compiled by Ancestry.com.au from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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Threads: 124 - Messages: 345

Thread	Author	Replies
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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