Cranston

Cranston is the 10,191st most common surname in the United States, shared by 3,010 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 99,300.

By the numbers

People: 3,010
Rank: 10,191st
How common: 1 in 99,300
Per 100,000: 1.0

Where the name comes from

Origin Old English

From the genitive form of Old English cran (“crane”) + tūn (“enclosure; settlement”).

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 85.0%
Black, not Hispanic 6.4%
Hispanic or Latino 3.7%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 3.6%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.8%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.5%

Notable people called Cranston

Bryan Cranston (born 1956)American actor
Alan Cranston (1914–2000)American politician
Toller Cranston (1949–2015)Canadian figure skater and painter

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

Surnames like Cranston

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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.