Crawford
The boy's name Crawford has been in the national records since 1880, with 4,766 births to its name. In 2025 it ranked 2,091st. About 2,300 Crawfords are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 27.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Crawford boys named Crawford
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 4,766
- Estimated living today
- 2,300
- Median age today
- 27
- Peak year
- 1924
- Best rank
- 696th
- Rank in 2025
- 2,091st
- First recorded
- 1880
- Girls / boys
- 56 / 4,710
How old the living Crawfords are
born that year still alive today
Of the 4,766 babies given the name since 1880, about 2,300 are alive — 49 in every hundred. Roughly 970 of them are children and 550 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1998 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Notable Crawfords
- Crawford Williamson Long (1815–1878)American physician
- William Crawford Gorgas (1854–1920)22nd Surgeon General of the United States Army
- Crawford Palmer (born 1970)French-American basketball player
- Francis Crawford Burkitt (1864–1935)British theologian and scholar
- William Crawford Williamson (1816–1895)English naturalist and palaeobotanist
People named Crawford with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Crawford is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Crawford is most concentrated in Georgia (10.5×), Alabama (7.1×), North Carolina (4.1×), South Carolina (3.0×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1924
The most popular boys’ names the year Crawford peaked:
Crawford elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Scotland boys | Crawford | 161 | 155th |
| England and Wales boys | Crawford | 32 | 2,254th |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Related names
Crawford against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
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Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.