Crossland
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Person from Crossland, Yorkshire; ‘land with crosses’
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Crossland is a surname written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in the United States.
- GBUnited Kingdom
- AUAustralia
- CACanada
Where the name is found, darker where our sources hold more of it. No national register counts its bearers anywhere we hold data, so the map carries no figures. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Person from Crossland, Yorkshire; ‘land with crosses’.
Sources 1
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Where in the world(measured from records)
Recorded in:
No national register we accept counts this name’s bearers, so the page lists where it is found and publishes no figure.
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)
Crossland is also recorded in 3 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 Crosland (West Riding of Yorkshire); first attested Christiana de Crosseland 1308 Wak
as a nameA Dictionary of English Surnames
In English, from a place in the parish of Almondbury, W Yorks., so called from ME Cross + land land. Vars.: Cros(se)land.
as a nameA dictionary of 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)
- Alice Crosslandb. 1552GBEnglish gentlewoman; mother of George Calvert (1552-1587)
- John Michael Crosslandb. 1800AUBritish / Australian portrait painter (1800–1858)
- Edward Crosslandb. 1827USAmerican politician (1827-1881)
- Charles Crosslandb. 1844GBEnglish mycologist (1844-1916)
- Jack Crosslandb. 1852GBEnglish professional cricketer (1852-1903)
- Cyril Crosslandb. 1878English zoologist (1878-1943)
- Pete Crosslandb. 1937USAmerican politician
- Zoë Crosslandb. 1971archaeologist
- Jon CrosslandBritish designer and illustrator
- Jill CrosslandGBBritish musician
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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 16 sources across 10 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 3.6K | #8,994 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 3.5K | #8,551 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 3.4K | #9,115 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 16 | #94,489 |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 10 | #40,126 |
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 6 | #93,012 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 3 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 3 | #256,058 |
| PA Panama | Tribunal Electoral — Boletín, postulaciones for the 5 May 2024 general election | 2024 | 1 | #1,312 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 1 | #86,693 |
| GB United Kingdom | A Dictionary of Surnames (Hanks & Hodges, 1988) | — | — | — |
| IT Italy | 意大利语姓名译名手册 (Xinhua Italian Name Manual) | — | — | — |
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 Crossland mean, and where does it come from?
- Person from Crossland, Yorkshire; ‘land with crosses’. Recorded by Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history].
- In which country does Crossland have the most bearers?
- Crossland is most frequently recorded in the United States.
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About this data
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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.
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Cite this page Mondonomo, “Crossland”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.