# Crawford (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/crawford/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | boys |
| Origin | not recorded |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 4,766 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 4,710 / 56 (1% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 32, 1996 to 2025 |

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2012 | 7 | 13,816 |
| 2014 | 6 | 14,997 |
| 2015 | 6 | 14,923 |
| 2021 | 6 | 13,877 |
| 2022 | 8 | 11,437 |
| 2023 | 8 | 11,417 |
| 2024 | 7 | 12,451 |
| 2025 | 8 | 11,158 |

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 33 | 3,320 |
| 2012 | 42 | 2,826 |
| 2013 | 36 | 3,067 |
| 2014 | 61 | 2,211 |
| 2015 | 63 | 2,172 |
| 2016 | 57 | 2,307 |
| 2017 | 51 | 2,497 |
| 2018 | 70 | 2,051 |
| 2019 | 69 | 2,092 |
| 2020 | 59 | 2,298 |
| 2021 | 54 | 2,471 |
| 2022 | 63 | 2,274 |
| 2023 | 52 | 2,549 |
| 2024 | 52 | 2,568 |
| 2025 | 70 | 2,097 |

### England and Wales, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1999 | 5 | 2,097 |
| 2000 | 5 | 2,142 |
| 2002 | 5 | 2,254 |
| 2006 | 4 | 3,385 |
| 2007 | 3 | 4,333 |
| 2009 | 3 | 4,527 |
| 2015 | 4 | 3,908 |
| 2018 | 3 | 4,749 |

## People named Crawford

- Crawford Williamson Long, American physician (1815–1878)
- William Crawford Gorgas, 22nd Surgeon General of the United States Army
- Crawford Palmer, French-American basketball player
- Francis Crawford Burkitt, British theologian and scholar (1864-1935)
- William Crawford Williamson, English naturalist and palaeobotanist (1816-1895)
- Crawford Howell Toy, American biblical and Hebrew scholar (1836–1919)
- Mike Rutherford, British guitarist and bassist
- David Conrad, American actor
- Murray MacLehose, British politician (1917–2000)
- Barbara Johnson, American engineer
- Alton Brown, American chef, author and musician
- Michael C. Kerr, American politician (1827-1876)

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.