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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English : possibly a topographic name from Middle English crich(e) ‘creek’, but more likely a habitational name from Creech St. Michael in Somerset or East Creech in Dorset, both named with a Celtic element cr{u:_}g ‘mound’, ‘hill’.
  • Scottish : habitational name from Creich in Fife.
  • Possibly an Americanized spelling of the German names mentioned at Creach 2.

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