as a First Name
Pronounced ‘kry-ton’: transferred use of the Scottish surname, in origin a local name from Crichton in Midlothian, so called from Gaelic crìoch ‘border, boundary’ + Middle English tune ‘settlement’ (Old English tūn).
| 5,912th in the U.S. for 2011 |
Nicknames & variations
Quick facts
- Hundreds
- of people in the U.S have this name
- 1,934
- to be exact (as of February 2011)
- Hawaii
- has the most people named Creighton per capita
- 2008
- marked the height of its popularity
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