Créach

surname · Latin script

Créach is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: From Scottish Gaelic creach.

rarermore common
  • FRFrance≈1 in 460K(inferred from the name graph)
  • USUnited States1 in 595K
  • ESSpain1 in 3.3M

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

United States (measured from records)

559 people, 2010

Sources
163 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 460K (inferred from the name graph)

France, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

2 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Creach in FR France, US United States, GB United Kingdom and Creac'H in ES Spain.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

From Scottish Gaelic creach.

Sources 2

  • The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
  • Wiktionary

Attested across 11 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Créach counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.

Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.

Where Créach is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States5591 in 595K635CREAcH16
FR France≈150 est.≈1 in 460K139CREAcH163
ES Spain151 in 3.3M15Creac'H3
GB United Kingdom———CREAcH4
EC Ecuador——1——

559 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010, counting the spelling creach. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.

Registers cited: INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).

Other names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Créach is also recorded as 3 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English surname9 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Canada, United Kingdom, Australia

    Languages: English, German

    Also written CREAcH, Creac'H, Créac'H

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written CREAcH

  • Spanish surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Cuba, Argentina, Colombia

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written CREAcH

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Evidence(measured from records)

No register attests this spelling yet

None of the official registers or reference works in our corpus lists Créach under this spelling. The statistics on this page rest on person records, and the related names are inferred from the name graph.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Créach mean, and where does it come from?
From Scottish Gaelic creach. Recorded by The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland and Wiktionary.
In which country does Créach have the most bearers?
In the United States, the national register counted about 559 people named Créach, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled CREAcH.
How common is the name Créach?
In the United States, the national register counted 559 people named Créach in 2010, about 1 in 595 thousand residents.

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About this data

measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated

These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.

Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.

Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.

Cite this page Mondonomo, “Créach”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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