Creight Surname

4,908,606th
Most Common
surname in the World

Approximately 16 people bear this surname

Most prevalent in:
United States
Highest density in:
Israel

Creight Surname

The meaning of this surname is not listed.

Creight Surname Distribution Map

PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
United States91:40,273,215872,126
Germany61:13,417,576340,600
Israel11:8,557,634182,558
PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
Ireland11:4,429,86640,727
PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
England11:24,375,369195,128
PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
United States171:2,954,040135,915

Creight (22) may also be a first name.

Creight Last Name Facts

Where Does The Last Name Creight Come From? nationality or country of origin

The last name Creight is found most in The United States. It may be found in the variant forms:. For other potential spellings of this surname click here.

How Common Is The Last Name Creight? popularity and diffusion

The last name is the 4,908,606th most commonly held family name on a worldwide basis It is held by approximately 1 in 455,471,620 people. The last name is predominantly found in The Americas, where 56 percent of Creight are found; 56 percent are found in North America and 56 percent are found in Anglo-North America. Creight is also the 2,301,746th most widespread first name internationally, borne by 22 people.

The surname is most widely held in The United States, where it is borne by 9 people, or 1 in 40,273,215. In The United States it is mostly concentrated in: New York, where 22 percent live, California, where 11 percent live and Colorado, where 11 percent live. Besides The United States Creight occurs in 2 countries. It is also found in Germany, where 38 percent live and Israel, where 6 percent live.

Creight Family Population Trend historical fluctuation

The occurrence of Creight has changed over time. In The United States the number of people bearing the Creight surname declined 47 percent between 1880 and 2014.

Creight Last Name Statistics demography

The religious devotion of those holding the Creight surname is principally Catholic (100%) in Ireland.

Phonetically Similar Names

SurnameSimilarityWorldwide IncidencePrevalency
Cright9298/
Kreight862/
Craight860/
Kright777/
Craght772/
Qright771/
Creige771/
Craiget713/
Krights711/
Craught711/
Creagch711/
Crought710/
Creix67122/
Craighed671/

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Footnotes

  • Surnames are taken as the first part of an person's inherited family name, caste, clan name or in some cases patronymic
  • Name distribution statistics are generated from a global database of over 4 billion people - more information
  • Heatmap: Dark red means there is a higher occurrence of the name, transitioning to light yellow signifies a progressively lower occurrence. Clicking on selected countries will show mapping at a regional level
  • Rank: Name are ranked by incidence using the ordinal ranking method; the name that occurs the most is assigned a rank of 1; name that occur less frequently receive an incremented rank; if two or more name occur the same number of times they are assigned the same rank and successive rank is incremented by the total preceeding names
  • Ethnic group cannot necessarily be determined by geographic occurrence
  • Similar: Names listed in the "Similar" section are phonetically similar and may not have any relation to Creight
  • To find out more about this surname's family history, lookup records on Family​Search, My​Heritage, FindMyPast and Ancestry. Further information may be obtained by DNA analysis