The CROSIER surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	1,862	14646	0.001	7
United States (1880 census)	993	5485	0.002	20
Change since 1880	+869	-9161	-0.001	-13
Other Countries
Australia	39	30861	0	2
United Kingdom	199	16550	0	4

Top States for CROSIER by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
New York	185	9910	0.001	10
Ohio	138	9179	0.001	12
Florida	131	12957	0.001	8
Illinois	118	10638	0.001	10
Massachusetts	113	6885	0.002	18
Top States for CROSIER by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Vermont	34	2787	0.006	56
Nebraska	66	3510	0.004	39
West Virginia	44	3960	0.002	24
Massachusetts	113	6885	0.002	18
New Hampshire	20	7357	0.002	16

Notes

Total is the total number of people with that surname.
Rank is the position in the list of names ordered by total (eg, a rank of 1 means that it's the most common name, and a rank of 10 means it's the tenth most common, etc).
Frequency is the percentage of people with that surname.
Per million people is the number of people with that surname per million of the population.

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

Classification and Origin of CROSIER

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: Occupational Name

Data for religion and/or language relates to the culture in which the CROSIER 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 CROSIER 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 CROSIER in the USA

Classification	Total	Percent
Black/African American	60	3.22
Mixed Race	31	1.66
White (Hispanic)	17	0.91
White (Caucasian)	1,738	93.34
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 CROSIER surname who reported their ethnic background as being in these broad categories in the most recent national census.

Meaning of CROSIER in historical publications

A bishop's staff, with a cross on the top in the form of a crutch or T. A sign over a shop.

Arthur, William (1857) An Etymological Dictionary of Family and Christian Names. New York: Sheldon, Blakeman. Public Domain.

CROSIER. A crosier is a bishop's staff, fashioned like a shepherd's crook, symbolical of his spiritual pastorate — but this is an unlikely origin for the name, which is more probably dei'ived fi'om the old Fr. croiseur, one who stamps or marks anything with a cross, or perhaps from croise, one who has designated himself with the Christian symbol — a Crusader.

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 CROSIER

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as CROSIER.

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.