Crawford

At the 2020 census, 159,143 Americans bore the surname Crawford — 161st out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 1,878.

By the numbers

People: 159,143
Rank: 161st
How common: 1 in 1,878
Per 100,000: 53.2

Where the name comes from

Origin Old English

From Old English crāwe (“crow”) + ford (“ford”).

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 66.1%
Black, not Hispanic 24.7%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.6%
Hispanic or Latino 3.3%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.7%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.6%

Notable people called Crawford

Joan Crawford (1906–1977)American actress
Cindy Crawford (born 1966)American model
Broderick Crawford (1911–1986)American actor
Chace Crawford (born 1985)American actor
Shawn Crawford (born 1978)American sprinter
Jamal Crawford (born 1980)American basketball player
Randy Crawford (born 1952)American jazz and R&B singer
William H. Crawford (1772–1834)American politician and judge

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

Surnames like Crawford

Also a first name

Crawford has been given to 4,766 American babies as a first name since 1880, peaking in 1924. See it as a given name.

Try it on yourself

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.