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Creighton

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Creighton ♂ 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).

Variant: Crichton.

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Creighton

A Dictionary of First Names | 2006 | | Copyright

Creighton ♂ (Scottish) Transferred use of the Scottish surname, in origin a local name from Crichton in Midlothian (from Gaelic crìoch ‘border, boundary’ + Middle English tune ‘settlement’).

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PATRICK HANKS, KATE HARDCASTLE, and FLAVIA HODGES. "Creighton." A Dictionary of First Names. 2006. Encyclopedia.com. (May 30, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O41-Creighton1.html

PATRICK HANKS, KATE HARDCASTLE, and FLAVIA HODGES. "Creighton." A Dictionary of First Names. 2006. Retrieved May 30, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O41-Creighton1.html

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