An English surname and place name, also the name of a university in Nebraska.
From Old English crēoh 'nook, corner' plus tūn 'settlement, town.' Originally denoted someone from a settlement in a corner or bend of land, particularly in the Scottish Borders region.
Creighton preserves medieval landscape description in its very syllables - it literally means 'corner town,' reflecting how our ancestors named places by their geographical features. This surname carries the memory of how humans first organized space and settlement.
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