Crampton
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Crampton is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country. Recorded meaning: different form of Crompton.
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 40K(inferred from the name graph)
- AUAustralia≈1 in 40K
- CACanada≈1 in 79K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- China (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 300 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 30K (inferred from the name graph)
≈13,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
New Zealand, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
different form of Crompton
Sources 1
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Where in the world(measured from records)
Crampton 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CN China | ≈13,000 est. | ≈1 in 104K | — | Crampton | 3 |
| US United States | 2,784 | 1 in 119K | 2.8K | Crampton | 300 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈1,600 est. | ≈1 in 40K | — | Crampton | 174 |
| AU Australia | ≈640 est. | ≈1 in 40K | — | Crampton | 107 |
| CA Canada | ≈480 est. | ≈1 in 79K | — | Crampton | 86 |
| NZ New Zealand | ≈160 est. | ≈1 in 30K | — | Crampton | 54 |
| IE Ireland | ≈120 est. | ≈1 in 44K | — | Crampton | 38 |
| UY Uruguay | 61 | 1 in 56K | 61 | Crampton | 7 |
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; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000; INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public). 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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Crampton is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Irish, Prominent in the commercial life of Dublin since early eighteenth century. There are occasional references to this name in earlier Irish records
as a nameThe Surnames of Ireland
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Sir John Crampton, 2nd Baronetb. 1805GBBritish diplomat (1805–1886)
- Thomas Russell Cramptonb. 1816GBBritish engineer (1816–1888)
- Howard Cramptonb. 1865USactor (1865-1922)
- Henry Edward Cramptonb. 1875USU.S. evolutionary biologist and malacologist (1875–1956)
- Gertrude Cramptonb. 1909USAmerican writer (1909-1996)
- Patricia Cramptonb. 1925USBritish translator (1925-2016)
- William Cramptonb. 1936GBBritish vexillologist (1936-1997)
- Dave Cramptonb. 1949GBEnglish footballer (born 1949)
- Barbara Cramptonb. 1958USAmerican actress
- Matthew Cramptonb. 1986GBEnglish racing cyclist
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 14 sources across 7 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 2.8K | #10,363 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 2.8K | #11,335 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 2.7K | #11,250 |
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 61 | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Crampton mean, and where does it come from?
- different form of Crompton Recorded by Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history].
- In which country does Crampton have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 13 thousand people named Crampton in China, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled crampton.
- How common is the name Crampton?
- In the United States, the national register counted 2,784 people named Crampton in 2010, about 1 in 119 thousand residents.
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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, “Crampton”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.