Family name origins & meanings
- French and English (of Norman origin) : habitational name from places in northern France, in Saône-et-Loire, Seine-Maritime, and Somme, all named with the Gallic personal name Crixsos ‘curly-haired man’ (Latin Crixsus) + the Latin locative suffix -acum.
- Southern French : topographic name for someone who lived on a patch of stony ground, Occitan cres, gres.
- Possibly a variant of French Cressé : unexplained.
- A bearer of the name Cressé from Paris is documented in Quebec city in 1674.