Crawford
surname · Latin script
Meaning: person from Crawford, from place-names meaning 'ford frequented by crows'
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ˈkɹɔfɝd/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Crawford is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. In New Zealand it is the 95th most common surname.
- NZNew Zealand≈1 in 1.7K(inferred from the name graph)
- IEIreland≈1 in 1.9K
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 1.9K
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.
- United States (measured from records)
- #524 (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 553 (measured from records)
- 1 in 1.1K (inferred from the name graph)
164,457 people, 2010
of 19M surnames
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Guyana
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
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)
person from Crawford, from place-names meaning 'ford frequented by crows'
Sources 1
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Often considered alongside
Names that people choosing a name often weigh against Crawford, most often first. They share a style rather than an origin.
From the names suggested together in public name-advice forums, in English. A list of what people consider, not a measure of how common any name is.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Crawford 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 | #130 | 164,457 | 1 in 2K | 164K | Crawford | 553 |
| GB United Kingdom | #163 | ≈34,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.9K | 3 | Crawford | 299 |
| CA Canada | #136 | ≈18,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.1K | 1 | Crawford | 246 |
| EG Egypt | — | ≈16,000 est. | ≈1 in 6.4K | — | Crawford | 15 |
| IT Italy | #297 | ≈14,000 est. | ≈1 in 4.5K | — | Crawford | 41 |
| NZ New Zealand | #95 | ≈2,900 est. | ≈1 in 1.7K | — | Crawford | 141 |
| IE Ireland | #154 | ≈2,700 est. | ≈1 in 1.9K | — | Crawford | 88 |
| GY Guyana | — | 704 | 1 in 1.1K | 704 | — | 9 |
| IS Iceland | #207 | ≈250 est. | ≈1 in 1.4K | listed | Crawford | 8 |
164,457 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); Alberta Open Government — Frequency and Ranking of Baby Names by Year and Gender; Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025. 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)
Crawford is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, person from Crawford, a place-name meaning ‘ford by the crows’.
as a nameEncyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
In English, A Lanarkshire location name, probably from Scots craw ‘crow’ + ford. John de Crauford is recorded 1127–60.
as a nameScottish Surnames
In English, An English and Scottish habitational surname from Old English derived from several different place names.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Irish, Bibl; App
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)
- Joan Crawfordb. 1905USAmerican actress (1908–1977)
- Broderick Crawfordb. 1911USAmerican actor (1911–1986)
- John Crawfordb. 1920USAmerican actor (1920-2010)
- Pat Crawford Brownb. 1929USAmerican actress (1929-2019)
- Michael Crawfordb. 1942GBBritish actor and singer
- Cindy Crawfordb. 1966USAmerican model
- Jamal Crawfordb. 1980USAmerican basketball player (born 1980)
- Chace Crawfordb. 1985USAmerican actor
- Alicia Foxb. 1986USnot in their usual nameAmerican professional wrestler
- Jordan Crawfordb. 1988USAmerican basketball player (born 1988)
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).
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 50 sources across 30 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 164K | #156 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 159K | #161 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 158K | #146 |
| GY Guyana | Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025 | 2025 | 704 | #152 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 6
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
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 Crawford mean, and where does it come from?
- person from Crawford, from place-names meaning 'ford frequented by crows' Recorded by Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history].
- How do you pronounce Crawford?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈkɹɔfɝd/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Crawford have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 164 thousand people named Crawford, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled crawford.
- Where is Crawford most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Crawford is densest in Guyana — about 1 in 1.1 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Crawford?
- In the United States, the national register counted 164,457 people named Crawford in 2010, about 1 in 2.0 thousand residents.
- How common is Crawford compared with other names?
- In the United States, Crawford is the 130th most common surname of 6,282,806 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/crawfordThe 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, “Crawford” — the 130th most common surname in United States. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.