Crenshaw

Crenshaw is the 2,047th most common surname in the United States, shared by 17,257 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 17,300.

By the numbers

People: 17,257
Rank: 2,047th
How common: 1 in 17,300
Per 100,000: 5.8

Where the name comes from

Named after American horticulturist Edwin Crenshaw.

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 49.9%
Black, not Hispanic 40.6%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 5.2%
Hispanic or Latino 3.4%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.5%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.4%

Notable people called Crenshaw

Kimberlé Crenshaw (born 1959)American legal academic
Dan Crenshaw (born 1984)American politician and former Navy SEAL
Ben Crenshaw (born 1952)professional golfer
Ander Crenshaw (born 1944)American politician

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

Surnames like Crenshaw

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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.