How common is the surname Crail?

717 people in the United States had the surname Crail in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 430,607 Americans. It ranked 32,169th of 162,253 surnames.

What ethnicity is the surname Crail?

In the 2010 Census, 87% of people named Crail identified as white (not Hispanic), and 7.3% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

Is the surname Crail getting more or less common?

Less common. 785 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 717 in 2010, down 8.7%.

The surname Crail

A surname, carried by 717 people in the United States.

1 syllable Soundex C640

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Crail is more common than 80.2% of them.

Origin

From Pictish *cair (“fortress”) (or the Pictish loanword in Scottish Gaelic) + *al, ail (“rock, cliff”).

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 717 people named Crail in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 430,607 Americans. That is down 8.7% since 2000, when the Census counted 785.

#32,169

rank among US surnames

717

people in 2010

0.2

per 100,000 Americans

-8.7%

change since 2000 (was #28,584)

Who is named Crail

Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census

87% of people named Crail identified as white (not Hispanic), 7.3% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 2.5% as Asian and Pacific Islander.

White (not Hispanic) 87%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 7.3%
Asian and Pacific Islander 2.5%
Two or more races 2.4%

The Census suppresses very small shares to protect privacy; Black, Native American are not shown.

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Crail

Crail has the Soundex code C640, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code C640.

Questions

Where does the surname Crail come from?: From Pictish *cair (“fortress”) (or the Pictish loanword in Scottish Gaelic) + *al, ail (“rock, cliff”).
How common is the surname Crail?: 717 people in the United States had the surname Crail in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 430,607 Americans. It ranked 32,169th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Crail?: In the 2010 Census, 87% of people named Crail identified as white (not Hispanic), and 7.3% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
Is the surname Crail getting more or less common?: Less common. 785 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 717 in 2010, down 8.7%.