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creighton Name Meaning and History

  1. 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.
  2. Irish: sometimes used for Gaelic Ó Creacháin or Ó Criocháin (see Crehan 2).
  3. 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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creighton Family Facts

Distribution of creighton Families in the US in 1920
Number of creighton families
 92-182
 31-91		 1-30
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