Creech Family History

English: habitational name from Creech Saint Michael in Somerset or East Creech in Dorset, both named with the Celtic element crṻg ‘mound hill’. English: perhaps a topographic name for someone who lived by a creek if Reaney is right to presume a Middle English word crich(e) creche (Old English cricc) with this sense.

Alternatively, from Middle English cracche crecche ‘manger stall; stable’, perhaps ‘cottage or hut’. Manx: shortened form of Gaelic Mac Raois, an altered form of Mac Aonghuis ‘son of Aonghus (Angus)’. Ballacreetch in Onchan on the Isle of Man means ‘Creetch's farm’.

Scottish: habitational name from Creich in Fife. The name is now rare in Scotland. Possibly also an Americanized form of German Krietsch (or some other similar like-sounding surname).