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CREEK
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English
English : of uncertain origin, possibly a habitational name, of which the second element appears to be Old English well(a) ‘spring’, ‘creek’. The first element may be a short form of an Old English personal name containing the element Ås ‘god’ (see for example Oswald) or its Old Norse cognate ás (see Osborne). However, the earliest known bearer of the name was Roger Wyswall, who was admitted as a burgess of Shrewsbury in 1450. The English name is found in various forms, including Woosall and Wossald.Irish (Ulster) : adopted as an English equivalent of Gaelic Ó hEodhusa ‘descendant of Eodhus’ (see Hussey).
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Indian
Rivulet, River, Stream, Little creek
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Muslim
Rivulet, River, Stream, Little creek
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English (Devon and Cornwall)
English (Devon and Cornwall) : topographic name for someone who lived by a tidal creek or an inlet of the sea, Old English pyll, or a habitational name from Pylle in Somerset, which was named with this word.English (Devon and Cornwall) : descriptive nickname for a small, rotund person, from Middle English, Old French pil(l)e ‘ball’.
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English
English : habitational name from Pangbourne in Berkshire, named with the Old English personal name Pǣga + -inga ‘followers or dependants of’ + burna ‘creek’.
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German (Stallmann)
German (Stallmann) : variant of Staller.German : topographic name for someone who lived in a muddy place, from the dialect word stal.English : habitational name from Stalmine in Lancashire, named probably with Old English stæll ‘creek’, ‘pool’ + Old Norse mynni ‘mouth’.English : possibly an occupational name for a stockman, from Middle English stall ‘stall’ + man ‘man’, or a topographic name for someone who lived by some cattle stalls.
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English
English : probably a habitational name from a place in Dorset named Creekmoor, from Middle English crike ‘creek’, ‘inlet’ + more ‘moor’, ‘marshy ground’. However, this surname is not found in current English records.
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Muslim
Rivulet, River, Stream, Little creek
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Egyptian
Creek.
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English (Norfolk)
English (Norfolk) : from the Middle English personal name Loveke, Old English Lufeca, a derivative of Lufa (see Love 1), or LÄ“ofeca, a derivative of LÄ“ofa (see Leaf 2).English : perhaps a habitational name from places in Cumbria and Northumberland called Lowick, or Lowich in Northamptonshire. The first is from Old Norse lauf ‘leaf’ + vÃk ‘creek’; the second is from the river name Low (possibly from Old English luh ‘pool’) + Old English wÄ«c ‘dairy farm’, ‘dwelling’; and the third from an unattested Old English personal name, Luffa, or Luhha + wÄ«c.Probably a respelling of Lovik.
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English and North German
English and North German : topographic name for someone who lived ‘over the creek’, from Middle English and Middle Low German over ‘over’ + beck ‘stream’, ‘creek’.Dutch : variant of Overbeek.Swedish (Överbäck) : ornamental or topographic name from över ‘over’ + bäck ‘stream’, ‘creek’ (Old Norse bekkr).Altered form of German Oberbeck.
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English (mainly Devon)
English (mainly Devon) : from Old French pilleur ‘plunderer’, formerly used as a nickname for a bailiff.English (mainly Devon) : topographic name for someone who lived by a tidal creek (see Pill, Pyle).English (mainly Devon) : topographic name from Old French piler ‘pillar’.
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English
English : habitational name from either of two villages in Wiltshire called Ogbourne, from the Old English personal name Oc(c)a + Old English burna ‘stream’, ‘creek’ (see Bourne).
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Indian
Rivulet, River, Stream, Little creek
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English (Devon)
English (Devon) : habitational name from a place so called in Hatherleigh, Devon.The Methodist Robert Strawbridge was born in Drummersnave (now Drumsna), near Carrick-on-Shannon, Co. Leitrim, Ireland. Some time between 1759 and 1766 he emigrated to MD and settled on Sam’s Creek, Frederick Co.
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German
German : topographic name for someone who lived by a stream, Middle High German bach ‘stream’. This surname is established throughout central Europe and in Scandinavia, not just in Germany.Jewish (Ashkenazic) : ornamental name from German Bach ‘stream’, ‘creek’.English : topographic name for someone who lived by a stream, Middle English bache.Welsh : distinguishing epithet from Welsh bach ‘little’, ‘small’.Norwegian : Americanized spelling of the topographic name Bakk(e) ‘hillside’ (see Bakke).Polish, Czech, and Slovak : from the personal name Bach, a pet form of Bartomolaeus (Polish Bartłomiej, Czech Bartoloměj, Slovak Bartolomej (see Bartholomew) or possibly in some cases of Baltazar or Sebastian).
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English
English : habitational name from either of the places called Washington, in Tyne and Wear and West Sussex. The latter is from Old English WassingatÅ«n ‘settlement (Old English tÅ«n) of the people of Wassa’, a personal name that is probably a short form of some compound name such as WÄðsige, composed of the elements wÄð ‘hunt’ + sige ‘victory’. Washington in Tyne and Wear is from Old English WassingtÅ«n ‘settlement associated with Wassa’.George Washington (1732–99), 1st president of the U.S. (1789–97), was born at Bridges Creek, VA. His great-grandfather had settled in the colony after emigrating from England in 1658. With the passage of time, the surname has come to be borne by more African Americans than English Americans. A prominent example was the educator Booker T. Washington (1856–1915), born a slave in VA, who adopted his surname from his stepfather, Washington Ferguson.
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Indian
Rivulet, River, Stream, Little creek
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Muslim
Rivulet, River, Stream, Little creek
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English
English : variant spelling of Waite.Thomas Wait came to MA from England in 1634. Samuel Wait (1789–1867), a Baptist clergyman, was born in White Creek, NY, organized Baptists in NC and helped found what became Wake Forest College (1838).
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Welsh
Welsh : variant of Powell (see Howell).English (of Norman origin) : habitational name from Bouelles in Seine Maritime, France, so named with Old Norman French boelle ‘enclosure’, ‘dwelling’.
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Hebrew
Beautiful dawn.
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Afghan, Arabic, Hindu, Indian, Iranian, Kannada, Muslim, Parsi, Sindhi, Tamil, Telugu
Tender; Falcon; Royal; Peregrine Falcon
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Tamil
Sasmita | ஸஸà¯à®®à®¿à®¤à®¾
Smiling
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English
English : habitational name from the city of Norwich in East Anglia, named from Old English north ‘north’ + wīc ‘trading center’, ‘harbor’, or a topographic name with the same meaning.
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Gujarati, Hindu, Indian, Kannada, Malayalam, Marathi, Mythological, Rajasthani, Sindhi, Tamil, Telugu
Goddess Parvati; Bright
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Teutonic
Renowned.
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Anglo Saxon
Princess.
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Indian
Handsome
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n.
A retired nook; especially, a small, sheltered inlet, creek, or bay; a recess in the shore.
n.
An inlet, bay, or creek; -- so called in the Orkney and Shetland Islands.
n. pl.
A tribe of North American Indians belonging to the Creek confederation.
n.
A small inlet or bay, narrower and extending further into the land than a cove; a recess in the shore of the sea, or of a river.
a.
Containing, or abounding in, creeks; characterized by creeks; like a creek; winding.
n.
The chub sucker.
n.
Any turn or winding.
v. t.
A natural stream of water smaller than a river or creek.
n. pl.
A powerful tribe of North American Indians that formerly occupied the region of Georgia, Florida, and Alabama. They constituted a large part of the Creek confederacy.
n. pl.
A tribe or confederacy of North American Indians, including the Muskogees, Seminoles, Uchees, and other subordinate tribes. They formerly inhabited Georgia, Florida, and Alabama.
n. pl.
A tribe of Indians who formerly lived near the site of the city of Natchez, Mississippi. In 1729 they were subdued by the French; the survivors joined the Creek Confederacy.
n. pl.
A tribe of Indians who formerly occupied Florida, where some of them still remain. They belonged to the Creek Confideration.
v. i.
A flood; a creek or inlet; a bay or estuary; a river; -- obsolete, except as a place name, -- as Fleet Street in London.
n.
A stream of water smaller than a river and larger than a brook.
n.
A small stream; a brook; a creek.