Creel
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Creel is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country. Recorded meaning: A woven basket, especially a wicker basket and especially as follows:.
- USUnited States1 in 38K(measured from records)
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 84K
- PKPakistan≈1 in 28K
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.
- China (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 325 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 28K (inferred from the name graph)
≈16,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Pakistan, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
A woven basket, especially a wicker basket and especially as follows:
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Creel 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.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CN China | ≈16,000 est. | ≈1 in 86K | — | Creel | 3 |
| US United States | 8,815 | 1 in 38K | 8.8K | Creel | 325 |
| PK Pakistan | ≈8,400 est. | ≈1 in 28K | — | Creel | 2 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈780 est. | ≈1 in 84K | — | Creel | 55 |
| EG Egypt | ≈700 est. | ≈1 in 150K | — | Creel | 2 |
| CA Canada | ≈480 est. | ≈1 in 79K | — | Creel | 25 |
| AU Australia | ≈310 est. | ≈1 in 82K | — | Creel | 15 |
| SG Singapore | ≈100 est. | ≈1 in 62K | — | Creel | 1 |
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: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010. 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Enrique Creelb. 1854MX(1854-1931) Mexican politician
- George Creelb. 1876USAmerican journalist (1876–1953)
- Herrlee Glessner Creelb. 1905USAmerican sinologist and philosopher (1905–1994)
- Jack Creelb. 1916USAmerican baseball player
- Santiago Creelb. 1954MXMexican politician
- Keith Creelb. 1959USAmerican baseball player
- Scott Creelb. 1962USresearcher ORCID ID = 0000-0003-3170-6113
- Leanna Creelb. 1970USAmerican actress
- Gavin Creelb. 1976USAmerican actor and singer (1976–2024)
- Annika Schmidtb. 1997USnot in their usual nameAmerican soccer player
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 12 sources across 6 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 8.8K | #4,028 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 8.5K | #3,838 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 8.1K | #4,216 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Creel mean, and where does it come from?
- A woven basket, especially a wicker basket and especially as follows: Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- In which country does Creel have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 16 thousand people named Creel in China, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled creel.
- How common is the name Creel?
- In the United States, the national register counted 8,815 people named Creel in 2010, about 1 in 38 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/creelThe same payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), and bulk access is licensed separately.
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, “Creel”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.