Crane

At the 2020 census, 36,578 Americans bore the surname Crane — 935th out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 8,172.

By the numbers

People: 36,578
Rank: 935th
How common: 1 in 8,172
Per 100,000: 12.2

Where the name comes from

As an English surname, from the noun crane.

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Crane described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

White, not Hispanic 86.5%
Black, not Hispanic 4.4%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.2%
Hispanic or Latino 3.5%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.7%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.7%

Notable people called Crane

Stephen Crane (1871–1900)American novelist, short story writer, poet, and journalist
Hart Crane (1899–1932)American writer
David Crane (born 1957)American writer and producer
Walter Crane (1845–1915)English artist and book illustrator
Bob Crane (1928–1978)American actor, drummer, radio host, and disc jockey
Eva Crane (1912–2007)British nuclear physicist and bees and beekeeping scientist
Norma Crane (1928–1973)American stage, film and television actress
Fred Crane (1918–2008)American film and television actor and radio announcer

People named Crane with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Surnames like Crane

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Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.