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The CRESSWELL surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 1,486 17483 0.001 6
United States (1880 census) 430 10874 0.001 9
Change since 1880 +1056 -6609 0 -3
Other Countries
Australia 536 3009 0.003 33
United Kingdom 5,909 1065 0.013 129
Top States for CRESSWELL by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Pennsylvania 237 6072 0.002 19
California 126 17869 0.000 4
Florida 88 18166 0.001 6
New York 85 20341 0.000 4
Missouri 83 7982 0.001 15
Top States for CRESSWELL by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Delaware 19 6736 0.002 24
Pennsylvania 237 6072 0.002 19
Missouri 83 7982 0.001 15
Arkansas 39 6479 0.001 15
Mississippi 41 5731 0.001 14

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

Classification and Origin of CRESSWELL

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 CRESSWELL 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 CRESSWELL 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 CRESSWELL in the USA

Classification Total Percent
Black/African American 52 3.5
White (Hispanic) 13 0.87
Mixed Race 12 0.81
White (Caucasian) 1,405 94.55
Asian/Pacific Less than 100 Insignificant
Native American/Alaskan Less than 100 Insignificant

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

Meaning of CRESSWELL in historical publications

CRESSWELL. CRESWELL. A township and estate in Northumberland, pos

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 CRESSWELL

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as CRESSWELL.

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 CRESSWELL

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