How common is the surname Crombie?

1,147 people in the United States had the surname Crombie in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 269,177 Americans. It ranked 22,436th of 162,253 surnames.

Is the surname Crombie getting more or less common?

More common. 1,089 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,147 in 2010, up 5.3%.

The surname Crombie

A Scottish Gaelic place surname, carried by 1,147 people in the United States.

2 syllables Soundex C651

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Crombie is more common than 86.2% of them.

Origin

Scottish Gaelic origin

Habitational surname borrowed from Scottish Gaelic, from crom (“bent, crooked”).

Crombie is a place surname: taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.

One of 277 Scottish Gaelic surnames on this site.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 1,147 people named Crombie in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 269,177 Americans. That is up 5.3% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,089.

#22,436

rank among US surnames

1,147

people in 2010

0.4

per 100,000 Americans

+5.3%

change since 2000 (was #22,143)

Who is named Crombie

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

91% of people named Crombie identified as white (not Hispanic), 3.5% as Black (not Hispanic) and 2.4% as two or more races.

White (not Hispanic) 91%
Black (not Hispanic) 3.5%
Two or more races 2.4%
American Indian and Alaska Native 1.7%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.3%
Asian and Pacific Islander 0.5%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling

Variant spellings

Cromie
Crumby

Surnames that sound like Crombie

Crombie has the Soundex code C651, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code C651.

Other Scottish Gaelic surnames

All 277 Scottish Gaelic surnames

Questions

Where does the surname Crombie come from?: Habitational surname borrowed from Scottish Gaelic, from crom (“bent, crooked”).
How common is the surname Crombie?: 1,147 people in the United States had the surname Crombie in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 269,177 Americans. It ranked 22,436th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Crombie?: In the 2010 Census, 91% of people named Crombie identified as white (not Hispanic), and 3.5% as Black (not Hispanic).
What type of surname is Crombie?: Crombie is a place surname, taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.
Is the surname Crombie getting more or less common?: More common. 1,089 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,147 in 2010, up 5.3%.
What are other spellings of Crombie?: Cromie and Crumby.