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    The surname Creagh

    An Irish nickname surname, carried by 678 people in the United States.

    1 syllable Soundex C620

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    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Creagh is more common than 79.3% of them.

    Origin

    Irish origin

    Anglicized form of Irish Craobhach, an epithet of the O'Neill dynasty deriving from the adjective craobhach (“branched, branching”). Compare Creevy, Cray.

    Creagh is a nickname surname: from a description or nickname of an ancestor.

    One of 880 Irish surnames on this site.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 678 people named Creagh in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 455,377 Americans. That is about the same as in 2000, when the Census counted 676.

    #33,596
    rank among US surnames
    678
    people in 2010
    0.2
    per 100,000 Americans
    +0.3%
    change since 2000 (was #32,161)

    Who is named Creagh

    Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census

    66% of people named Creagh identified as white (not Hispanic), 21% as Black (not Hispanic) and 11% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

    • White (not Hispanic) 66%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 21%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 11%
    • Two or more races 1.5%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 0.7%

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Famous Creaghs

    1 notable person on Wikidata, most written-about first

    • Michael O'Moore Creagh
      British Army general, 1892–1970

    Spellings and sound-alikes

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    Surnames that sound like Creagh

    Creagh has the Soundex code C620, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code C620.

    Other Irish surnames

    All 880 Irish surnames

    Questions

    Where does the surname Creagh come from?
    Anglicized form of Irish Craobhach, an epithet of the O'Neill dynasty deriving from the adjective craobhach (“branched, branching”). Compare Creevy, Cray.
    How common is the surname Creagh?
    678 people in the United States had the surname Creagh in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 455,377 Americans. It ranked 33,596th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Creagh?
    In the 2010 Census, 66% of people named Creagh identified as white (not Hispanic), and 21% as Black (not Hispanic).
    Who is the most famous person named Creagh?
    Michael O'Moore Creagh, British Army general.
    Where is the surname Creagh most common?
    Wikidata records people named Creagh in the United Kingdom.
    What type of surname is Creagh?
    Creagh is a nickname surname, from a description or nickname of an ancestor.
    Is the surname Creagh getting more or less common?
    More common. 676 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 678 in 2010, up 0.3%.