Crowther
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Person who plays the crowd, an ancient Celtic stringed instrument (Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history])
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 16 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
/ˈkɹaʊðə/(recorded in a dictionary) English · from Wiktionary
Crowther is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United Kingdom than in any other country. Crowther is also written โกรเตอร in Thai.
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 12K(inferred from the name graph)
- AUAustralia≈1 in 17K
- NZNew Zealand≈1 in 27Kfew records
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United Kingdom (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 328 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 12K (inferred from the name graph)
≈5,700 people, est.
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
United Kingdom, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Crowther in other scripts: Thai
(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.
How to pronounce Crowther
- English:/ˈkɹaʊðə/(recorded in a dictionary) from Wiktionary
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)Person who plays the crowd, an ancient Celtic stringed instrument.
Cited for this meaning 1
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Crowther is found
(measured from records)Crowther 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| GB United Kingdom | ≈5,700 est. | ≈1 in 12K | listed | Crowther | 213 |
| US United States | 3,880 | 1 in 86K | 4K | Crowther | 328 |
| AU Australia | ≈1,600 est. | ≈1 in 17K | — | Crowther | 148 |
| NG Nigeria | ≈1,500 est. | ≈1 in 156K | — | Crowther | 25 |
| CA Canada | ≈820 est. | ≈1 in 50K | — | Crowther | 114 |
| NZ New Zealand | ≈200 est. | ≈1 in 27K | — | Crowther | 64 |
| SG Singapore | ≈170 est. | ≈1 in 35K | — | Crowther | 3 |
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 2020; the hanks-dictionary-surnames-1988 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).
Other recorded senses
(measured from records)Crowther 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, A derivative of ME crouth, croude 'fiddle', i.e. a fiddler; first attested Richard le Cruder 1275 RH (K).
as a nameA Dictionary of English Surnames
In English, crowd, ME crouth, croude, a type of popular medieval stringed instrument (W erwth). Vars.: Crowder, Crother, Crewther. Crystal see Cristal Patrs.; Crothers (see also Carruthers); McWhirter. Ctibor see Stibor
as a nameThe Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles
In English, Dims, (of 1): It.: Crocetti, Crucetti, Crucitti, Crosetto, Crosetti. Habitation names: Pol.: Krzyz(an)owski. Var.: Crosfield.
as a nameA dictionary of surnames
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 Ajayi Crowtherb. 1806GBYoruba linguist and the first African Anglican bishop in Nigeria (1809-1891)
- Bosley Crowtherb. 1905USAmerican film critic (1905–1981)
- Kitty Crowtherb. 1970BEBelgian children's illustrator and writer (born 1970)
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)26 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 16 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Crowther mean, and where does it come from?
- Person who plays the crowd, an ancient Celtic stringed instrument. Recorded by Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history].
- How do you pronounce Crowther?
- In English /ˈkɹaʊðə/ (Wiktionary).
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Crowther?
- Mondonomo estimates about 5.7 thousand people named Crowther in the United Kingdom, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled crowther. After it come United States, Australia, Nigeria and Canada; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Crowther?
- In the United States, the national register counted 3,880 people named Crowther in 2010, about 1 in 86 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Crowther?
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/crowtherThe 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, “Crowther”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.