The CROSS surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	75,134	382	0.028	278
United States (1880 census)	19,050	279	0.038	381
Change since 1880	+56084	-103	-0.01	-103
Other Countries
Australia	6,370	209	0.039	390
United Kingdom	25,649	203	0.056	558

Top States for CROSS by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
California	5,573	579	0.016	165
Texas	5,097	493	0.024	244
Tennessee	4,303	180	0.076	756
Florida	4,144	458	0.026	259
Michigan	3,866	221	0.039	389
Top States for CROSS by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Vermont	548	90	0.090	900
Tennessee	4,303	180	0.076	756
Maine	609	377	0.048	478
Arkansas	1,274	260	0.048	477
West Virginia	814	318	0.045	450

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

Classification and Origin of CROSS

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 CROSS 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 CROSS 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 CROSS in the USA

Classification	Total	Percent
Native American/Alaskan	676	0.9
Asian/Pacific	308	0.41
White (Caucasian)	58,364	77.68
Black/African American	13,246	17.63
Mixed Race	1,300	1.73
White (Hispanic)	1,247	1.66

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

Similar names to CROSS

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as CROSS.

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.