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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Italian : from the southern dialect word crea ‘flesh’ (from Greek kreas), presumably applied as a nickname for a fat man.
  • Possibly a reduced form of Scottish McCrea, an Ayrshire variant of McCrae (see McRae).

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