How common is the surname Crompton?

2,111 people in the United States had the surname Crompton in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 146,256 Americans. It ranked 14,215th of 162,253 surnames.

Is the surname Crompton getting more or less common?

More common. 2,045 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 2,111 in 2010, up 3.2%.

The surname Crompton

An English place surname, carried by 2,111 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). Crompton is more common than 91.2% of them.

Origin

English origin

Habitational surname from a settlement in Greater Manchester, from Old English crumbe (“river bend”) + tūn (“enclosure; settlement, town”).

Crompton 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 2,111 people named Crompton in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 146,256 Americans. That is up 3.2% since 2000, when the Census counted 2,045.

#14,215

rank among US surnames

2,111

people in 2010

0.7

per 100,000 Americans

+3.2%

change since 2000 (was #13,613)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#14,208	Sprayberry	2,113	146,117
#14,213	Fodor	2,112	146,186
#14,215	Cruickshank	2,111	146,256
#14,220	Cella	2,110	146,325
#14,223	Lohse	2,109	146,394

Who is named Crompton

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

92% of people named Crompton identified as white (not Hispanic), 5.3% as Black (not Hispanic) and 1.9% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

White (not Hispanic) 92%
Black (not Hispanic) 5.3%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.9%
Two or more races 0.7%

The Census suppresses very small shares to protect privacy; Asian & Pacific Islander, Native American are not shown.

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Variant spellings

Crumpton

Surnames that sound like Crompton

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

Other English surnames

All 1,446 English surnames

Questions

Where does the surname Crompton come from?: Habitational surname from a settlement in Greater Manchester, from Old English crumbe (“river bend”) + tūn (“enclosure; settlement, town”).
How common is the surname Crompton?: 2,111 people in the United States had the surname Crompton in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 146,256 Americans. It ranked 14,215th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Crompton?: In the 2010 Census, 92% of people named Crompton identified as white (not Hispanic), and 5.3% as Black (not Hispanic).
What type of surname is Crompton?: Crompton is a place surname, taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.
Is the surname Crompton getting more or less common?: More common. 2,045 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 2,111 in 2010, up 3.2%.
What are other spellings of Crompton?: Crumpton.