The surname Crafton
An English place surname, carried by 4,056 people in the United States.
2 syllables Soundex C613
Origin
English origin
From Old English croh (“saffron”) + tūn (“enclosure; settlement, town”).
Crafton is a place surname: taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.
One of 1,446 English surnames on this site.
Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How common it is
2010 US Census
There were 4,056 people named Crafton in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 76,121 Americans. That is up 1.9% since 2000, when the Census counted 3,979.
Who is named Crafton
Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census
83% of people named Crafton identified as white (not Hispanic), 12% as Black (not Hispanic) and 2.2% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
- White (not Hispanic) 83%
- Black (not Hispanic) 12%
- Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.2%
- Two or more races 1.9%
- American Indian and Alaska Native 0.5%
- Asian and Pacific Islander 0.4%
Spellings and sound-alikes
Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling
Crafton has the Soundex code C613, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code C613.
Other English surnames
Questions
- Where does the surname Crafton come from?
- From Old English croh (“saffron”) + tūn (“enclosure; settlement, town”).
- How common is the surname Crafton?
- 4,056 people in the United States had the surname Crafton in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 76,121 Americans. It ranked 8,173rd of 162,253 surnames.
- What ethnicity is the surname Crafton?
- In the 2010 Census, 83% of people named Crafton identified as white (not Hispanic), and 12% as Black (not Hispanic).
- What type of surname is Crafton?
- Crafton is a place surname, taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.
- Is the surname Crafton getting more or less common?
- More common. 3,979 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 4,056 in 2010, up 1.9%.