Family name origins & meanings
- English : possibly a topographic name from Middle English crich(e) ‘creek’, but more likely a habitational name from Creech St. Michael in Somerset or East Creech in Dorset, both named with a Celtic element cr{u:_}g ‘mound’, ‘hill’.
- Scottish : habitational name from Creich in Fife.
- Possibly an Americanized spelling of the German names mentioned at Creach 2.