Crehan
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ˈkɹɛhən/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Crehan is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Two main origins: * Reduced Anglicized form of Irish Ó Croidheáin (“descendant of Croidheán”), a personal name derived from a diminutive form of croidhe (“heart”). Compare Creegan.
- USUnited States1 in 537K(measured from records)
- BEBelgium1 in 3.9M
- PLPoland1 in 13M
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Sources
- 42 (measured from records)
- 1 in 537K (inferred from the name graph)
619 people, 2010
Highest-authority source
United States
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Two main origins: * Reduced Anglicized form of Irish Ó Croidheáin (“descendant of Croidheán”), a personal name derived from a diminutive form of croidhe (“heart”). Compare Creegan. * Reduced Anglicized form of Irish Ó Creacháin (“descendant of Creachán”), a personal name derived from a diminutive form of creach (“blind”).
Sources 2
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Wiktionary
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Crehan 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 619 | 1 in 537K | 630 | Crehan | 23 |
| BE Belgium | 3 | 1 in 3.9M | 3 | — | — |
| PL Poland | 3 | 1 in 13M | 3 | — | — |
| FR France | — | — | — | Crehan | 42 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | — | — | Crehan | 9 |
| IE Ireland | — | — | — | Crehan | 7 |
619 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000; Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames). 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)
- Joseph Crehanb. 1883USAmerican actor (1883–1966)
- Junior Crehanb. 1908IEIrish fiddler
- Patrick Crehanb. 1920IEIrish basketball player (1920-1992)
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).
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 9 sources across 3 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 630 | #34,071 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 619 | #36,204 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 590 | #40,105 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 3 | — |
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 3 | #135,097 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 3 | #253,810 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- 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 Crehan mean, and where does it come from?
- Two main origins: * Reduced Anglicized form of Irish Ó Croidheáin (“descendant of Croidheán”), a personal name derived from a diminutive form of croidhe (“heart”). Compare Creegan. Recorded by The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland and Wiktionary.
- How do you pronounce Crehan?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈkɹɛhən/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Crehan have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 619 people named Crehan, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled crehan.
- Where is Crehan most common?
- Crehan is densest in the United States, where the national register counts about 1 in 537 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Crehan?
- In the United States, the national register counted 619 people named Crehan in 2010, about 1 in 537 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/crehanThe 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), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
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, “Crehan”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.