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The CREIGHTON surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 7,126 4567 0.003 26
United States (1880 census) 2,110 2841 0.004 42
Change since 1880 +5016 -1726 -0.001 -16
Other Countries
Australia 888 1846 0.005 54
United Kingdom 2,304 2616 0.005 50
Top States for CREIGHTON by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
California 645 4438 0.002 19
Florida 541 3729 0.003 34
Pennsylvania 466 3234 0.004 38
New York 456 4166 0.002 24
Illinois 316 4016 0.003 25
Top States for CREIGHTON by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
New Hampshire 106 1826 0.009 86
Rhode Island 80 2010 0.008 76
Maine 82 2550 0.006 64
Maryland 298 2013 0.006 56
Massachusetts 297 2899 0.005 47

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

Classification and Origin of CREIGHTON

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: Location or Geographical Feature

Data for religion and/or language relates to the culture in which the CREIGHTON 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 CREIGHTON 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 CREIGHTON in the USA

Classification Total Percent
Black/African American 818 11.48
White (Hispanic) 107 1.5
Mixed Race 98 1.38
Asian/Pacific 37 0.52
Native American/Alaskan 35 0.49
White (Caucasian) 6,031 84.63

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

Meaning of CREIGHTON in historical publications

CREIGHTON. See Crichton.

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 CREIGHTON

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as CREIGHTON.

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 CREIGHTON

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