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The CROSSLEY surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 5,499 5767 0.002 20
United States (1880 census) 1,046 5257 0.002 21
Change since 1880 +4453 -510 0 -1
Other Countries
Australia 1,068 1548 0.007 65
United Kingdom 7,529 817 0.016 164
Top States for CROSSLEY by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
California 500 5718 0.001 15
Pennsylvania 437 3511 0.004 36
Florida 398 5051 0.002 25
Texas 358 5663 0.002 17
New York 249 7826 0.001 13
Top States for CROSSLEY by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Idaho 104 1746 0.008 80
Utah 147 2030 0.007 66
Rhode Island 67 2466 0.006 64
Nevada 99 2390 0.005 50
Mississippi 123 2830 0.004 43

Notes

'A figure of zero indicates that we don't have data for this name (usually because it's quite uncommon and our stats don't go down that far). It doesn't mean that there's no-one with that name at all!

For less common surnames, the figures get progressively less reliable the fewer holders of that name there are. This data is aggregated from several public lists, and some stats are interpolated from known values. The margin of error is well over 100% at the rarest end of the table!

For less common surnames, the frequency and "per million" values may be 0 even though there are people with that name. That's because they represent less than one in a million of the population, which ends up as 0 after rounding.

It's possible for a surname to gain in rank and/or total while being less common per million people (or vice versa) as there are now more surnames in the USA as a result of immigration. In mathematical terms, the tail has got longer, with a far larger number of less common surnames.

Figures for top states show firstly the states where most people called CROSSLEY live. This obviously tends to be biased towards the most populous states. The second set of figures show where people called CROSSLEY represent the biggest proportion of the population. So, in this case, there are more people called CROSSLEY in California than any other state, but you are more likely to find a CROSSLEY by picking someone at random in Idaho than anywhere else.

Classification and Origin of CROSSLEY

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: Location or Geographical Feature

Data for religion and/or language relates to the culture in which the CROSSLEY surname originated. It does not necessarily have any correlation with the language spoken, or religion practised, by the majority of current American citizens with that name.

Data for ethnic origin relates to the region and country in which the CROSSLEY surname originated. It does not necessarily have any correlation with the ethnicity of the majority of current American citizens with that name.

Ethnic distribution of CROSSLEY in the USA

Classification Total Percent
Black/African American 851 15.48
Mixed Race 107 1.95
White (Hispanic) 55 1
Native American/Alaskan 48 0.87
Asian/Pacific 17 0.31
White (Caucasian) 4,421 80.4

Ethnic distribution data shows the number and percentage of people with the CROSSLEY surname who reported their ethnic background as being in these broad categories in the most recent national census.

Meaning of CROSSLEY in historical publications

CROSSLEY. The Crossleys of Scaitcliffe, CO. Lancaster, anciently Del Croslegh, are of unknown antiquity. B.L.G. I find no locality so called.

Lower, Mark A (1860) Patronymica Britannica: a dictionary of the family names of the United Kingdom. London: J.R. Smith. Public Domain.


Similar names to CROSSLEY

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as CROSSLEY.

This does not necessarily imply a direct relationship between the names, but may indicate names that could be mistaken for this one when written down or misheard.

Matches are generated automatically by a combination of Soundex, Metaphone and Levenshtein matching.

Potential typos for CROSSLEY

The following words are slight variants of CROSSLEY that are likely to be possible typos or misspellings in written material.