Family name origins & meanings
- Southern Irish : Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Críodáin or Mac Críodáin ‘descendant (or ‘son’) of Críodán’, an Old Irish personal name of uncertain meaning (the ending is diminutive in form).
- English : habitational name from Creeton in Lincolnshire, so named with an unattested Old English personal name Crǣta + Old English tūn.