Crompton
surname · Latin script
Meaning: person from Crompton, Lancashire, meaning ‘farmstead in a bend’
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/kɹɒmptən/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Crompton is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- VCSt. Vincent & Grenadines1 in 101K(measured from records)
- USUnited States1 in 158K
- NONorway1 in 228K
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 25 (measured from records)
- 1 in 101K (inferred from the name graph)
2,111 people, 2010
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
St. Vincent & Grenadines
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 Crompton, Lancashire, meaning ‘farmstead in a bend’.
Sources 1
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Crompton 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 | 2,111 | 1 in 158K | 2.1K | Crompton | 6 |
| ES Spain | 30 | 1 in 1.7M | 30 | — | — |
| NO Norway | 24 | 1 in 228K | 24 | — | — |
| SE Sweden | 12 | 1 in 850K | 12 | — | — |
| PL Poland | 8 | 1 in 4.8M | 5 | — | — |
| VC St. Vincent & Grenadines | 1 | 1 in 101K | 1 | — | — |
2,111 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; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); Electoral Office of St Vincent & the Grenadines — Final Voters List (Nov 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)
Crompton is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, from Crompton (Lancashire); first attested Richard de Crompton 1246 AssLa
as a nameA Dictionary of English Surnames
In English, A surname from Old English.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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)
- Samuel Cromptonb. 1753GBBritish inventor, pioneer of the spinning industry (1753-1827)
- Bob Cromptonb. 1879GBEnglish footballer (1879–1941)
- Richmal Cromptonb. 1890GBEnglish short-story writer and novelist (1890–1969)
- Jack Cromptonb. 1921GBEnglish footballer (1921–2013)
- Dennis Cromptonb. 1935GBBritish architect (1935–2025)
- Barry Gibbb. 1946GBnot in their usual nameBritish musician
- Geoff Cromptonb. 1955USAmerican basketball player (1955-2002)
- Alan Cromptonb. 1958GBFootballer (born 1958)
- Kevin Cromptonb. 1961CACanadian musician
- Grace Cromptonb. 2001GBEngland international rugby union player
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 21 sources across 10 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 2.1K | #14,215 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 2.1K | #13,946 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 2K | #13,613 |
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 30 | #64,257 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 30 | #62,916 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 24 | #38,909 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 12 | #34,875 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 5 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 5 | #193,084 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 3 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 3 | #256,056 |
| VC St. Vincent & Grenadines | Electoral Office of St Vincent & the Grenadines — Final Voters List (Nov 2025) | 2025 | 1 | #261 |
Reference works 5
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
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 Crompton mean, and where does it come from?
- person from Crompton, Lancashire, meaning ‘farmstead in a bend’. Recorded by Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history].
- How do you pronounce Crompton?
- A machine transcription gives /kɹɒmptən/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Crompton have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 2.1 thousand people named Crompton, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled crompton.
- Where is Crompton most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Crompton is densest in St. Vincent & Grenadines — about 1 in 101 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Crompton?
- In the United States, the national register counted 2,111 people named Crompton in 2010, about 1 in 158 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/cromptonThe 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, “Crompton”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.