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The CROWDER surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 23,409 1387 0.009 87
United States (1880 census) 4,525 1372 0.009 91
Change since 1880 +18884 -15 0 -4
Other Countries
Australia 191 7859 0.001 12
United Kingdom 1,536 3667 0.003 33
Top States for CROWDER by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
North Carolina 2,052 597 0.025 255
Texas 1,999 1334 0.010 96
Virginia 1,878 475 0.027 265
Tennessee 1,845 490 0.032 324
Georgia 1,507 748 0.018 184
Top States for CROWDER by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Tennessee 1,845 490 0.032 324
Virginia 1,878 475 0.027 265
North Carolina 2,052 597 0.025 255
Arkansas 494 752 0.018 185
Georgia 1,507 748 0.018 184

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

Classification and Origin of CROWDER

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 CROWDER 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 CROWDER 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 CROWDER in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Hispanic) 360 1.54
Mixed Race 356 1.52
Native American/Alaskan 126 0.54
Asian/Pacific 68 0.29
White (Caucasian) 16,213 69.26
Black/African American 6,285 26.85

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

Meaning of CROWDER in historical publications

CROWDER. A player on the croivd, an ancient species of violin with six strings. (Irish cniii, Welsh crivth). In the West of England a small fiddle is still called a "crowdy-kit." It appears to have been a favourite instrument in Britain so early as the VI. cent. In Wickliffe's translation of the Bible, in Judges xi. 34, Jephthah's daughter is described as coming to meet her father " with tj-mpaus and croudix," i. e. vith drums and fiddles. Way's Prompt. Parv.

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 CROWDER

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as CROWDER.

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 CROWDER

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