Ravenscroft
surname · Latin script
Meaning: ‘person from Ravenscroft’, Cheshire, meaning ‘Hrafn’s smallholding’
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 7 countries · latest register: dane.gov.pl, 2026
/ˈɹeɪvənzˌkɹɔft/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Ravenscroft is a surname written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in the United States.
- GBUnited Kingdom
- AUAustralia
- USUnited States
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 Ravenscroft’, Cheshire, meaning ‘Hrafn’s smallholding’
Cited for this meaning 1
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
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)Ravenscroft 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, 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)- Thomas Ravenscroftb. 1592GBEnglish musician and editor
- George Ravenscroftb. 1632GBBritish glassmaker (1632–1683)
- James Ravenscroftb. 1854GBEnglish cricketer (1854-1931)
- Gladys Ravenscroftb. 1888GBBritish golfer (1888–1960)
- Thurl Ravenscroftb. 1914USAmerican actor
- John Peelb. 1939GBnot in their usual nameEnglish DJ and radio presenter (1939–2004)
- Christopher Ravenscroftb. 1946GBBritish actor
- Raphael Ravenscroftb. 1954GBBritish musician, composer and author (1954–2014)
- Craig Ravenscroftb. 1974GBEnglish professional footballer (born 1974)
- Tim Ravenscroftb. 1992GGEnglish cricketer
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)15 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 7 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| GB United Kingdom | Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register) | 2002 | 2.4K | #3,177 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 970 | #25,486 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 944 | #27,108 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 932 | #25,006 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 12 | #109,635 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 6 | #89,778 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 4 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 4 | #235,630 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 2 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 2 | #378,037 |
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 1 | #166,617 |
| CR Costa Rica | TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names | — | 1 | #20,694 |
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 Ravenscroft mean, and where does it come from?
- ‘person from Ravenscroft’, Cheshire, meaning ‘Hrafn’s smallholding’ Recorded by Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history].
- How do you pronounce Ravenscroft?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈɹeɪvənzˌkɹɔft/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Ravenscroft have the most bearers?
- Ravenscroft is most frequently recorded in the United States.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/ravenscroftThe 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, “Ravenscroft”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.