Cràne
surname · Latin script
Cràne is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: From Middle English crane, from Old English cran (“crane”), from Proto-West Germanic *kran, from Proto-Germanic *kranô (“crane”), from Proto-Indo-European *gerh₂- (“to cry hoarsely”).
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 5.9K(inferred from the name graph)
- AUAustralia≈1 in 6.4K
- CACanada≈1 in 7.2K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Cràne itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- 4 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 473 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 5.9K (inferred from the name graph)
37,870 people, 2010
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
United Kingdom, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)Locally spelled Crane in US United States, GB United Kingdom, AU Australia and 1 more and Karin in CH Switzerland.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)- Middle Englishcrane(measured from records)
- Old Englishcran“crane”(measured from records)
- Proto-West Germanic*kran(measured from records)
- Proto-Germanic*kranô“crane”(measured from records)
- Proto-Indo-European*gerh₂-“to cry hoarsely”(measured from records)
From Middle English crane, from Old English cran (“crane”), from Proto-West Germanic *kran, from Proto-Germanic *kranô (“crane”), from Proto-Indo-European *gerh₂- (“to cry hoarsely”). Cognate with Scots cran (“crane”), Dutch kraan (“crane”), German Kran (“crane”). The mechanical devices are named from their likeness to the bird.
Cited for this meaning 5
- A dictionary of surnames
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- The Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles
- Wiktionary
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Attested across 27 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Cràne counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | #524 | 37,870 | 1 in 8.8K | 38K | Crane | 473 |
| GB United Kingdom | #538 | ≈12,000 est. | ≈1 in 5.9K | 6 | Crane | 214 |
| CH Switzerland | — | 5,898as Kälin | 1 in 1.4K | 5.9K | Karin | 18 |
| CA Canada | #528 | ≈5,700 est. | ≈1 in 7.2K | 1 | Crane | 173 |
| AU Australia | #587 | ≈4,300 est. | ≈1 in 6.4K | 3 | Crane | 170 |
| HR Croatia | — | 924as Kirin | 1 in 4.6K | 924 | — | — |
| SI Slovenia | — | 874as Kalan | 1 in 2.4K | 1.7K | — | 2 |
37,870 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; NRS — Baby names Scotland full list (1974–present); Australian national given names (aggregated state BDM); Alberta Open Government — Frequency and Ranking of Baby Names by Year and Gender; BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank); DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Evidence
(measured from records)No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Cràne mean, and where does it come from?
- From Middle English crane, from Old English cran (“crane”), from Proto-West Germanic *kran, from Proto-Germanic *kranô (“crane”), from Proto-Indo-European *gerh₂- (“to cry hoarsely”). Recorded by A dictionary of surnames and The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland and 3 other sources.
- In which country does Cràne have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 38 thousand people named Cràne, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled crane.
- How common is the name Cràne?
- In the United States, the national register counted 37,870 people named Cràne in 2010, about 1 in 8.8 thousand residents.
- How common is Cràne compared with other names?
- In the United States, Cràne is the 524th most common surname of 6,282,806 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Cràne?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/cr%C3%A0neThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Cràne” — the 524th most common surname in United States. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.