Cross
75,035 people in the United States were counted with the surname Cross in the 2020 census, making it the 432nd most common in the country. That is about one person in 3,983.
By the numbers
- People
- 75,035
- Rank
- 432nd
- How common
- 1 in 3,983
- Per 100,000
- 25.1
Where the name comes from
Origin Middle English
As an English surname, from the noun cross, as in crossroads. Also a calque of this word in various European languages, such as French Lacroix, German Kreutz, Serbo-Croatian Križ. Compare Crouch, Crozier, Kriz.
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Who bears the name
How people with the surname Cross described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:
Notable people called Cross
- John of the Cross (1542–1591)Spanish mystic and Roman Catholic saint
- Marcia Cross (born 1962)American actress
- David Cross (born 1964)American stand-up comedian and actor
- Ben Cross (1947–2020)British actor
- Henri-Edmond Cross (1856–1910)French Neo-Impressionist painter
- Christopher Cross (born 1951)American singer-songwriter
- Roger Cross (born 1969)Jamaican–Canadian actor
- Joseph Cross (born 1986)American actor
People named Cross with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Surnames like Cross
Also a first name
Cross has been given to 1,381 American babies as a first name since 1997, peaking in 2025. 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.