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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • 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’.

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