Cronin

18,559 people in the United States were counted with the surname Cronin in the 2020 census, making it the 1,899th most common in the country. That is about one person in 16,100.

By the numbers

People: 18,559
Rank: 1,899th
How common: 1 in 16,100
Per 100,000: 6.2

Where the name comes from

Origin Irish

Reduced Anglicized form of Irish Ó Cróinín (“descendant of Cróinín”), a byname derived from a diminutive form of crón (“swarthy”).

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 92.5%
Hispanic or Latino 3.2%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 2.8%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.9%
Black, not Hispanic 0.4%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.2%

Notable people called Cronin

James Cronin (1931–2016)American physicist
A. J. Cronin (1896–1981)Scottish novelist
Justin Cronin (born 1962)American writer
Lee Cronin (born 1982)Irish screenwriter and director
Sam Cronin (born 1986)American soccer player
Joe Cronin (1906–1984)American baseball player and manager
Steve Cronin (born 1983)American soccer player

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

Surnames like Cronin

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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.