Last name: CRAIK

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CRAIK : This last name is indexed 12,534 times on Geneanet!

Origin of last name

CRAIK : 1: Scottish: habitational name from Craik in Aberdeenshire named from Gaelic creag ‘steep or precipitous rock’ or from various other places so named for example in Angus Dumfriesshire Roxburghshire and Selkirkshire.2: English (Durham): variant of Crake a habitational name from Crayke in the North Yorkshire named with Primitive Welsh creig ‘rock crag’ (Old Welsh creic cognate with Gaelic craig).

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