Crosley
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Person from Crossley, Yorkshire; ‘glade with a cross’
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ˈkɹɑsɫi/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Crosley is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 169K(measured from records)
- HTHaiti≈1 in 108K
- NZNew Zealand≈1 in 140K
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)
- Sources
- 240 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 108K (inferred from the name graph)
1,966 people, 2010
Highest-authority source
Haiti, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Person from Crossley, Yorkshire; ‘glade with a cross’.
Sources 1
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Where in the world(measured from records)
Crosley 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 | 1,966 | 1 in 169K | 2K | Crosley | 240 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈260 est. | ≈1 in 257K | — | Crosley | 49 |
| CA Canada | ≈200 est. | ≈1 in 192K | — | Crosley | 34 |
| IT Italy | ≈200 est. | ≈1 in 318K | — | Crosley | 4 |
| HT Haiti | ≈100 est. | ≈1 in 108K | listed | — | 1 |
| NZ New Zealand | ≈35 est. | ≈1 in 140K | — | Crosley | 5 |
| IE Ireland | ≈35 est. | ≈1 in 146K | — | Crosley | 2 |
1,966 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; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000; the ht-potomitan-names register. 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- William Crosleyb. 1819(1819-1874) 1875 Obituary
- Powel Crosleyb. 1849Millionaire
- Powel Crosley, Jr.b. 1886USAmerican businessman (1886–1961)
- Bernadette Crosleyb. 1950HTHaitian writer
- Sloane Crosleyb. 1978USAmerican writer
- John CrosleyGBperson involved in the 17th century publishing trade
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 11 sources across 5 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 2K | #14,044 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 2K | #15,020 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 1.8K | #15,592 |
| HT Haiti | Potomitan — Noms et prénoms haïtiens (Haitian name lexicon) | — | — | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- 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 Crosley mean, and where does it come from?
- Person from Crossley, Yorkshire; ‘glade with a cross’. Recorded by Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history].
- How do you pronounce Crosley?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈkɹɑsɫi/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Crosley have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 2.0 thousand people named Crosley, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled crosley.
- How common is the name Crosley?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,966 people named Crosley in 2010, about 1 in 169 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/crosleyThe 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, “Crosley”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.