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The CROSBY surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 38,844 811 0.014 144
United States (1880 census) 10,004 605 0.02 200
Change since 1880 +28840 -206 -0.006 -56
Other Countries
Australia 1,018 1628 0.006 62
United Kingdom 5,180 1216 0.011 113
Top States for CROSBY by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Florida 3,442 564 0.022 215
South Carolina 2,806 193 0.070 699
Georgia 2,687 376 0.033 328
California 2,569 1301 0.008 76
Texas 2,095 1235 0.010 100
Top States for CROSBY by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
South Carolina 2,806 193 0.070 699
Mississippi 1,462 283 0.051 514
Maine 577 409 0.045 453
Georgia 2,687 376 0.033 328
Vermont 170 567 0.028 279

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

Classification and Origin of CROSBY

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 CROSBY 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 CROSBY 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 CROSBY in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Hispanic) 633 1.63
Mixed Race 559 1.44
Native American/Alaskan 307 0.79
Asian/Pacific 163 0.42
White (Caucasian) 28,209 72.62
Black/African American 8,973 23.1

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

Meaning of CROSBY in historical publications

CROSBY. Parishes, &c. in cos. Ayr, Cumberland, Lincoln, York, Westmoreland, and Lancaster, and an ancient chapelry in Ayrshire.

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 CROSBY

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as CROSBY.

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 CROSBY

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