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    The surname Crawshaw

    An English place surname, carried by 727 people in the United States.

    2 syllables Soundex C620

    Crawshaw: #31,754 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer#10,001Dubon Crawshaw #31,754, 727 people Crawshaw: #31,754 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#100Jimenez Crawshaw #31,754, 727 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Crawshaw is more common than 80.4% of them.

    Origin

    English origin

    Habitational surname from the village of Crawshawbooth, in Lancashire, which is from Old English crāwe (“crow”) + sċeaga (“copse, thicket”).

    Crawshaw 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 727 people named Crawshaw in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 424,684 Americans. That is up 2.4% since 2000, when the Census counted 710.

    #31,754
    rank among US surnames
    727
    people in 2010
    0.3
    per 100,000 Americans
    +2.4%
    change since 2000 (was #30,929)

    Who is named Crawshaw

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

    94% of people named Crawshaw identified as white (not Hispanic), 2.6% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 1.6% as two or more races.

    • White (not Hispanic) 94%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.6%
    • Two or more races 1.6%
    • American Indian and Alaska Native 1.2%
    The Census suppresses very small shares to protect privacy; Black, Asian & Pacific Islander are not shown.

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

    Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling

    Variant spellings

    • Crashaw
    • Croshaw

    Surnames that sound like Crawshaw

    Crawshaw has the Soundex code C620, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code C620.

    Other English surnames

    All 1,446 English surnames

    Questions

    Where does the surname Crawshaw come from?
    Habitational surname from the village of Crawshawbooth, in Lancashire, which is from Old English crāwe (“crow”) + sċeaga (“copse, thicket”).
    How common is the surname Crawshaw?
    727 people in the United States had the surname Crawshaw in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 424,684 Americans. It ranked 31,754th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Crawshaw?
    In the 2010 Census, 94% of people named Crawshaw identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.6% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
    What type of surname is Crawshaw?
    Crawshaw is a place surname, taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.
    Is the surname Crawshaw getting more or less common?
    More common. 710 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 727 in 2010, up 2.4%.
    What are other spellings of Crawshaw?
    Crashaw and Croshaw.