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The CREEK surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 3,593 8447 0.001 13
United States (1880 census) 791 6614 0.002 16
Change since 1880 +2802 -1833 -0.001 -3
Other Countries
Australia 485 3310 0.003 30
United Kingdom 585 7953 0.001 13
Top States for CREEK by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Illinois 346 3910 0.003 28
Maryland 306 2084 0.006 58
Texas 289 6911 0.001 14
Missouri 259 3022 0.005 46
Indiana 233 3480 0.004 38
Top States for CREEK by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Washington DC 37 1695 0.006 65
Maryland 306 2084 0.006 58
Kentucky 227 2458 0.006 56
Missouri 259 3022 0.005 46
Indiana 233 3480 0.004 38

Notes

'A figure of zero indicates that we don't have data for this name (usually because it's quite uncommon and our stats don't go down that far). It doesn't mean that there's no-one with that name at all!

For less common surnames, the figures get progressively less reliable the fewer holders of that name there are. This data is aggregated from several public lists, and some stats are interpolated from known values. The margin of error is well over 100% at the rarest end of the table!

For less common surnames, the frequency and "per million" values may be 0 even though there are people with that name. That's because they represent less than one in a million of the population, which ends up as 0 after rounding.

It's possible for a surname to gain in rank and/or total while being less common per million people (or vice versa) as there are now more surnames in the USA as a result of immigration. In mathematical terms, the tail has got longer, with a far larger number of less common surnames.

Figures for top states show firstly the states where most people called CREEK live. This obviously tends to be biased towards the most populous states. The second set of figures show where people called CREEK represent the biggest proportion of the population. So, in this case, there are more people called CREEK in Illinois than any other state, but you are more likely to find a CREEK by picking someone at random in Washington DC than anywhere else.

Classification and Origin of CREEK

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: Location or Geographical Feature

Data for religion and/or language relates to the culture in which the CREEK surname originated. It does not necessarily have any correlation with the language spoken, or religion practised, by the majority of current American citizens with that name.

Data for ethnic origin relates to the region and country in which the CREEK surname originated. It does not necessarily have any correlation with the ethnicity of the majority of current American citizens with that name.

Ethnic distribution of CREEK in the USA

Classification Total Percent
Black/African American 373 10.38
Mixed Race 64 1.78
Native American/Alaskan 54 1.5
White (Hispanic) 52 1.45
Asian/Pacific 10 0.28
White (Caucasian) 3,040 84.61

Ethnic distribution data shows the number and percentage of people with the CREEK surname who reported their ethnic background as being in these broad categories in the most recent national census.

Meaning of CREEK in historical publications

Sorry, we don't have any information on the meaning of CREEK.

Similar names to CREEK

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as CREEK.

This does not necessarily imply a direct relationship between the names, but may indicate names that could be mistaken for this one when written down or misheard.

Matches are generated automatically by a combination of Soundex, Metaphone and Levenshtein matching.

Potential typos for CREEK

The following words are slight variants of CREEK that are likely to be possible typos or misspellings in written material.