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    The surname Criswell

    A surname, carried by 8,077 people in the United States.

    2 syllables Soundex C624

    Criswell: #4,401 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Criswell #4,401, 8,077 people Criswell: #4,401 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Criswell #4,401, 8,077 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Criswell is more common than 97.3% of them.

    Origin

    A surname.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 8,077 people named Criswell in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 38,225 Americans. That is about the same as in 2000, when the Census counted 8,038.

    #4,401
    rank among US surnames
    8,077
    people in 2010
    2.7
    per 100,000 Americans
    +0.5%
    change since 2000 (was #4,074)
    RankSurnamePeople1 in
    #4,392Enos8,09738,131
    #4,393Maness8,09538,140
    #4,394Buckingham8,09438,145
    #4,396Ginn8,08838,173
    #4,397Cromwell8,08738,178
    #4,398McVay8,08638,183
    #4,399Morel8,08538,187

    Who is named Criswell

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

    85% of people named Criswell identified as white (not Hispanic), 11% as Black (not Hispanic) and 1.7% as two or more races.

    • White (not Hispanic) 85%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 11%
    • Two or more races 1.7%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.6%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 0.4%
    • American Indian and Alaska Native 0.4%

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

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    Surnames that sound like Criswell

    Criswell has the Soundex code C624, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code C624.

    Questions

    How common is the surname Criswell?
    8,077 people in the United States had the surname Criswell in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 38,225 Americans. It ranked 4,401st of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Criswell?
    In the 2010 Census, 85% of people named Criswell identified as white (not Hispanic), and 11% as Black (not Hispanic).
    Is the surname Criswell getting more or less common?
    More common. 8,038 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 8,077 in 2010, up 0.5%.