Crosby

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.

Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.

Names that people choosing a name often weigh against Crosby, most often first. They share a style rather than an origin.

• Nash
• Bowie
• Beck
• Grady
• Davis
• Beckett
• Bridger
• Bowen
• Sidney
• Fletcher
• Ellington
• Easton

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.

Crosby is also recorded as another name, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

• Spanish surname4 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in United States, Peru, Colombia, Argentina

  Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

  Also written Ćrosby

60 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Crosby 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, from Crosby (Cumberland, Lancashire, Lincolnshire, Westmorland, North Riding of Yorkshire) or Crosbie/Corsbie (Ayr, Kirkcudbright, Berwick); first attested Gillemichel de Crossebi 1176 P (We)

  as a name·A Dictionary of English Surnames

• In English, A locale in England:

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

• In English, Bing, US entertainer

  as a name·Pronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names

• Del pueblo que tiene una cruz

  as a name·25,000 nombres de bebé. La mejor guía para escoger el nombre adecuado

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.

• Fanny Crosbyb. 1820US19th century Christian hymnist
• Caresse Crosbyb. 1892USAmerican publisher, activist, and inventor of the bra (1892–1970)
• Floyd Crosbyb. 1899USAmerican cinematographer (1899-1985)
• Bing Crosbyb. 1903USAmerican singer and actor (1903–1977)
• Bob Crosbyb. 1913USAmerican dixieland bandleader and vocalist (1913–1993)
• David Crosbyb. 1941USAmerican singer, guitarist and songwriter (1941–2023)
• Cathy Lee Crosbyb. 1944USAmerican actress
• Denise Crosbyb. 1957USAmerican actress
• Mary Crosbyb. 1959USAmerican actress
• Sidney Crosbyb. 1987CACanadian ice hockey 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).

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

What does the name Crosby mean, and where does it come from?

(i) Person from Crosby, various places in Scotland and northern England, mostly ‘village or farmstead with crosses’; (ii) from Irish Gaelic Mac an Chrosdin, ‘son of the satirist’. Recorded by Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history].

How common is the name Crosby?

In the United States, the national register counted 40,563 people named Crosby in 2010, about 1 in 8.2 thousand residents.

How common is Crosby compared with other names?

In the United States, Crosby is the 743rd most common surname of 6,282,806 surnames recorded there.

In which country does Crosby have the most bearers?

In the United States, the national register counted about 41 thousand people named Crosby, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled crosby.