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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

'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.

Meaning of CROSS in historical publications

(origin: Local) A place where a cross was erected, or where two ways, roads, or streets intersected each other.

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


CROSS. This nnnie is sufficiently explained under the article Crouch.

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 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.

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

Potential typos for CROSS

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