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The CREAGH surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 676 32161 0 2
United States (1880 census) 194 19753 0 4
Change since 1880 +482 -12408 +N/A -2
Other Countries
Australia 255 6033 0.002 16
United Kingdom 202 16350 0 4
Top States for CREAGH by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
New York 84 20102 0.000 4
Michigan 65 17692 0.001 7
New Jersey 59 15066 0.001 7
Illinois 55 21688 0.000 4
Ohio 45 24736 0.000 4
Top States for CREAGH by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Vermont 6 10970 0.001 10
Alabama 33 9171 0.001 7
New Jersey 59 15066 0.001 7
Michigan 65 17692 0.001 7
Mississippi 15 10560 0.001 5

Notes

'A figure of zero indicates that we don't have data for this name (usually because it's quite uncommon and our stats don't go down that far). It doesn't mean that there's no-one with that name at all!

For less common surnames, the figures get progressively less reliable the fewer holders of that name there are. This data is aggregated from several public lists, and some stats are interpolated from known values. The margin of error is well over 100% at the rarest end of the table!

For less common surnames, the frequency and "per million" values may be 0 even though there are people with that name. That's because they represent less than one in a million of the population, which ends up as 0 after rounding.

It's possible for a surname to gain in rank and/or total while being less common per million people (or vice versa) as there are now more surnames in the USA as a result of immigration. In mathematical terms, the tail has got longer, with a far larger number of less common surnames.

Figures for top states show firstly the states where most people called CREAGH live. This obviously tends to be biased towards the most populous states. The second set of figures show where people called CREAGH represent the biggest proportion of the population. So, in this case, there are more people called CREAGH in New York than any other state, but you are more likely to find a CREAGH by picking someone at random in Vermont than anywhere else.

Classification and Origin of CREAGH

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: Ireland

Language of origin: Gaelic

Ethnic origin: Celtic

Religious origin: Christian

Data for religion and/or language relates to the culture in which the CREAGH surname originated. It does not necessarily have any correlation with the language spoken, or religion practised, by the majority of current American citizens with that name.

Data for ethnic origin relates to the region and country in which the CREAGH surname originated. It does not necessarily have any correlation with the ethnicity of the majority of current American citizens with that name.

Ethnic distribution of CREAGH in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Caucasian) 476 70.41
Black/African American 142 21.01
White (Hispanic) 43 6.36
Mixed Race 10 1.48
Asian/Pacific Less than 100 Insignificant
Native American/Alaskan Less than 100 Insignificant

Ethnic distribution data shows the number and percentage of people with the CREAGH surname who reported their ethnic background as being in these broad categories in the most recent national census.

Meaning of CREAGH in historical publications

CREAGH. This ancient Irish family claim descent from the famous Niall of the Nine Hostages, and they bore his name tmtil, in a campaign against the Danes, the head of this section having come off victorious, the citizens of Limerick placed green boughs in the headstalls of their deliverer's horses, and the chief himself received the complimentary title of O'Niall na Creavh, or " O'Niall of the Green Branch." The crest of the Creaghs of Ballyandrew, co. Cork, is a horse's head with a laurel branch in the headstall of the bridle. B.L.G.

Lower, Mark A (1860) Patronymica Britannica: a dictionary of the family names of the United Kingdom. London: J.R. Smith. Public Domain.


Similar names to CREAGH

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as CREAGH.

This does not necessarily imply a direct relationship between the names, but may indicate names that could be mistaken for this one when written down or misheard.

Matches are generated automatically by a combination of Soundex, Metaphone and Levenshtein matching.

Potential typos for CREAGH

The following words are slight variants of CREAGH that are likely to be possible typos or misspellings in written material.