Crete

loc · Latin script

Meaning: island, Greece

Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Crete is a name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in France than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • CACanada≈1 in 58K(inferred from the name graph)
  • FRFrance≈1 in 86K
  • USUnited States1 in 800K

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Crete itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

France (inferred from the name graph)

≈790 people, est.

Sources
162 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 58K (inferred from the name graph)

Canada, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

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)

island, Greece

Sources 1

  • Pronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names

Attested across 5 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Crete 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 Crete is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
FR France≈790 est.≈1 in 86K121Crete162
CA Canada≈650 est.≈1 in 58K—Crete97
US United States4161 in 800K416Crete150
GB United Kingdom≈170 est.≈1 in 387K—Crete12
BR Brazil351 in 6M35——
PL Poland16as Kreta1 in 2.4M9——

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; INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); 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).

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

Crete is also recorded as 6 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Portuguese name8 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Angola, Mexico, Brazil

    Languages: Portuguese, Spanish

    Also written Crété, Crête, Crêté, Crète

  • a separate name6 spellings in the group

    Also written Crété, Crète, Crête, Creté, Crêté

  • Greek given name9 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Greece, India, United States

    Also written Κρητη, Kriti, Κρήτη, Κριτή, Κρίτη

  • a separate name5 spellings in the group

    Also written Crête, Crété

  • a separate name5 spellings in the group

    Also written Crête, Crète, Crété

  • a separate name6 spellings in the group

    Also written Kreta, Crête, Crété

23 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

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.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Crete is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In fur, Crete (an island in the Mediterranean, and the largest in Greece)

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Latin, vocative masculine singular of crētus

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

  • Lucretia Garfieldb. 1832USnot in their usual nameFirst Lady of the United States from 1881 to 1881
  • Crete Cageb. 1881USAmerican journalist and clubwoman (1881-1968)

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.

Official registers attesting Crete
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010416#50,275
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20002000397#49,671
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020389#56,668
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)1971145—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)1961145—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)1951143—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)1941131—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)1981130—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)1991121—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)1931106—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)192199—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)190188—

Reference works 2

  • Dictionary of American Family Names
  • 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 Crete mean, and where does it come from?
island, Greece Recorded by Pronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names.
In which country does Crete have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 788 people named Crete in France, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled crete.
How common is the name Crete?
In the United States, the national register counted 416 people named Crete in 2010, about 1 in 800 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, “Crete”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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