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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

'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.

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

Potential typos for CROSIER

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