Crull
surname · Latin script
Meaning: from ME crul ‘curly-haired’; first attested John Crull 1443 CtH
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ˈkɹəɫ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Crull is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 258K(measured from records)
- SGSingapore≈1 in 80K
- PLPoland≈1 in 177K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Crull itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Sources
- 216 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 80K (inferred from the name graph)
1,290 people, 2010
Highest-authority source
Singapore, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Cruell in LR Liberia.
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)
from ME crul ‘curly-haired’; first attested John Crull 1443 CtH
Sources 1
- A Dictionary of English Surnames
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Crull 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 | — | 1,290 | 1 in 258K | 1.4K | Crull | 216 |
| LR Liberia | #186 | ≈430 est. | ≈1 in 12K | — | Cruell | 1 |
| DE Germany | — | ≈230 est. | ≈1 in 354K | — | Crull | 46 |
| PL Poland | — | ≈220 est. | ≈1 in 177K | — | Crull | 1 |
| EG Egypt | — | ≈180 est. | ≈1 in 582K | — | Crull | 2 |
| CA Canada | — | ≈140 est. | ≈1 in 278K | — | Crull | 21 |
| SG Singapore | — | ≈78 est. | ≈1 in 80K | — | Crull | 1 |
| AI Anguilla | #106 | — | — | — | Crull | 2 |
1,290 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 2020. 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)
Crull is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, first attested Burewold Crul 1066 Winton (Ha); etymology not shown in excerpt
as a nameA Dictionary of English 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)
- Friedrich Crullb. 1822DEGerman librarian and historian (1822–1911)
- August Crullb. 1845USAmerican theologian (1845–1923)
- Pieter Hofstede Crullb. 1862NLDutch jurist and politician (1862-1925)
- Ford Crullb. 1952USAmerican painter (born 1952)
- Conrad Crullsecond governor of the Danish Gold Coast
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 10 sources across 4 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 1.4K | #19,013 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 1.4K | #18,724 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 1.3K | #20,553 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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 Crull mean, and where does it come from?
- from ME crul ‘curly-haired’; first attested John Crull 1443 CtH Recorded by A Dictionary of English Surnames.
- How do you pronounce Crull?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈkɹəɫ/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Crull have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 1.3 thousand people named Crull, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled crull.
- How common is the name Crull?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,290 people named Crull in 2010, about 1 in 258 thousand residents.
- How common is Crull compared with other names?
- In Anguilla, Crull is the 106th most common surname of 7,424 surnames recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/crullThe 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, “Crull” — the 106th most common surname in Anguilla. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.