St. Paul, Minnesota has a Cretin Avenue and formerly even a Cretin High School (now merged and called Cretin-Derham Hall). They're named after Joseph Cretin, the first Catholic bishop of St. Paul, who was born in France, and died here in 1857. It's so commonplace here that no one thinks it odd that someone brags of being a Cretin alumnus.

It's pronounced just the way you'd expect in America: KREET-n.