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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • French (Crète, adjectival form Crété ‘crested’) : nickname for an arrogant individual, from Old French creste ‘crest (of a hill)’ (Late Latin crista), used with reference to the comb of a rooster. Compare Old French crester ‘to strut’.
  • A settler from the Perche region of France, documented as Crete and Creste, is recorded in Quebec city as early as 1654.

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