Creed (surname)

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Creed is an English surname. At the time of the British Census of 1881, its frequency was highest in Somerset (7.4 times the British average), followed by Gloucestershire, Dorset, Kent, Oxfordshire, Norfolk, Warwickshire, London, Buckinghamshire and Wiltshire. [1]

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  1. "Creed Meaning and Distribution". forebears.co.uk. Retrieved 25 January 2014