Creighton

At the 2020 census, 7,064 Americans bore the surname Creighton — 4,847th out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 42,300.

By the numbers

People: 7,064
Rank: 4,847th
How common: 1 in 42,300
Per 100,000: 2.4

Where the name comes from

Variant of Crichton.

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Creighton described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

White, not Hispanic 79.2%
Black, not Hispanic 12.7%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 3.6%
Hispanic or Latino 3.3%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.7%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.5%

Notable people called Creighton

John Oliver Creighton (born 1943)American astronaut
Mandell Creighton (1843–1901)English historian and clergyman (1843–1901); bishop of the Church of England from 1897 to 1901

People named Creighton with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Surnames like Creighton

Also a first name

Creighton has been given to 3,780 American babies as a first name since 1906, peaking in 2007. See it as a given name.

Try it on yourself

Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.