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The CREAN surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 1,369 18582 0.001 5
United States (1880 census) 202 19202 0 4
Change since 1880 +1167 +620 +N/A +1
Other Countries
Australia 124 11792 0.001 8
United Kingdom 546 8332 0.001 12
Top States for CREAN by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
New York 237 8012 0.001 12
Massachusetts 203 4140 0.003 32
New Jersey 107 9008 0.001 13
California 101 22333 0.000 3
Connecticut 99 4532 0.003 29
Top States for CREAN by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Massachusetts 203 4140 0.003 32
Connecticut 99 4532 0.003 29
New Hampshire 27 5721 0.002 22
New Jersey 107 9008 0.001 13
New York 237 8012 0.001 12

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

Classification and Origin of CREAN

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 CREAN 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 CREAN 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 CREAN in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Hispanic) 28 2.05
Black/African American 13 0.95
Mixed Race 7 0.51
White (Caucasian) 1,312 95.84
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 CREAN surname who reported their ethnic background as being in these broad categories in the most recent national census.

Meaning of CREAN in historical publications

CREAN. Formerly O'Crean, a very ancient family in Sligo.

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 CREAN

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as CREAN.

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 CREAN

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