Crosby
surname · Latin script
Meaning: (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 as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ˈkɹɔzbi/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Crosby is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- GHGhana≈1 in 3.3K(inferred from the name graph)
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 8K
- USUnited States1 in 8.2K
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)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 475 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 3.3K (inferred from the name graph)
40,563 people, 2010
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Ghana, est.
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)
(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’.
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 Crosby, 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)
Crosby 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 | #743 | 40,563 | 1 in 8.2K | 41K | Crosby | 475 |
| GH Ghana | #241 | ≈9,000 est. | ≈1 in 3.3K | — | Crosby | 22 |
| GB United Kingdom | #822 | ≈8,300 est. | ≈1 in 8K | listed | Crosby | 212 |
| CA Canada | #893 | ≈4,200 est. | ≈1 in 8.9K | 3 | Crosby | 153 |
| EG Egypt | — | ≈4,100 est. | ≈1 in 25K | — | Crosby | 12 |
| IE Ireland | #616 | ≈820 est. | ≈1 in 6.3K | — | Crosby | 57 |
| IS Iceland | #892 | ≈64 est. | ≈1 in 5.5K | listed | Crosby | 5 |
| GD Grenada | — | 30 | 1 in 3.8K | 30 | — | 3 |
| VC St. Vincent & Grenadines | — | 19 | 1 in 5.3K | 19 | — | 2 |
40,563 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; Alberta Open Government — Frequency and Ranking of Baby Names by Year and Gender; Grenada — Consolidated List of Electors December 2025; 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)
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 nameA Dictionary of English Surnames
In English, A locale in England:
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In English, Bing, US entertainer
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
Del pueblo que tiene una cruz
as a name25,000 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.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- 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).
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 39 sources across 24 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 41K | #851 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 39K | #874 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 39K | #811 |
| GD Grenada | Grenada — Consolidated List of Electors December 2025 | 2025 | 30 | #193 |
| VC St. Vincent & Grenadines | Electoral Office of St Vincent & the Grenadines — Final Voters List (Nov 2025) | 2025 | 19 | #243 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 4
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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 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 do you pronounce Crosby?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈkɹɔzbi/ (IPA) for English.
- 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.
- 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.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/crosbyThe 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, “Crosby” — the 743rd most common surname in United States. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.