How common is the surname Cross?

77,557 people in the United States had the surname Cross in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 3,981 Americans. It ranked 420th of 162,253 surnames.

Who is the most famous person named Cross?

Marcia Cross, American actress, followed by David Cross.

Where is the surname Cross most common?

Wikidata records people named Cross in the United States, the United Kingdom and Australia.

How do you pronounce Cross?

Cross is /kɹɔs/, one syllable.

Is the surname Cross getting more or less common?

More common. 75,134 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 77,557 in 2010, up 3.2%.

The surname Cross

A place surname, carried by 77,557 people in the United States.

Pronounced /kɹɔs/ 1 syllable Soundex C620

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Cross is more common than 99.7% of them.

Origin

* As an English surname, from the noun cross, as in crossroads. Also a calque of this word in various European languages, such as French Lacroix, German Kreutz, Serbo-Croatian Križ. Compare Crouch, Crozier, Kriz. * As an Irish surname, shortened from McCrossen. * As a German surname, Americanized from Kross, from Middle Low German krus (“pitcher, vessel”), which is possibly an old Germanic borrowing of Ancient Greek κρωσσός (krōssós, “pitcher, pail, urn”). Also a variant of Kress.

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

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 77,557 people named Cross in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 3,981 Americans. That is up 3.2% since 2000, when the Census counted 75,134.

#420

rank among US surnames

77,557

people in 2010

per 100,000 Americans

+3.2%

change since 2000 (was #382)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#411	Liu	78,370	3,940
#412	Ramsey	78,350	3,941
#413	Francis	78,327	3,942
#414	Griffith	78,260	3,945
#415	Paul	78,256	3,945
#416	Blair	78,026	3,957
#417	O'Connor	77,923	3,962

Who is named Cross

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

75% of people named Cross identified as white (not Hispanic), 18% as Black (not Hispanic) and 2.5% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

White (not Hispanic) 75%
Black (not Hispanic) 18%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.5%
Two or more races 2.3%
American Indian and Alaska Native 0.9%
Asian and Pacific Islander 0.6%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Famous Crosss

17 notable people on Wikidata, most written-about first

Marcia Cross
American actress, born 1962
David Cross
American stand-up comedian and actor (born 1964)
Ben Cross
British actor (1947-2020)
Christopher Cross
American singer-songwriter (born 1951)
Joseph Cross
American actor (born 1986)
Tom Cross
American film editor, born 2000
Art Cross
American racing driver, 1918–2005
Jessie Cross
Athletics competitor (1909–1986)
Kyra Cooney-Cross
Australian soccer player, born 2002
Harley Cross
American actor, born 1978
Donna Woolfolk Cross
American novelist, born 1947
Charles R. Cross
American journalist (1957–2024)

Notable Crosss come mostly from the United States (13), the United Kingdom (3) and Australia (1).

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Cross

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

Questions

Where does the surname Cross come from?: * As an English surname, from the noun cross, as in crossroads. Also a calque of this word in various European languages, such as French Lacroix, German Kreutz, Serbo-Croatian Križ. Compare Crouch, Crozier, Kriz. * As an Irish surname, shortened from McCrossen. * As a German surname, Americanized…
How common is the surname Cross?: 77,557 people in the United States had the surname Cross in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 3,981 Americans. It ranked 420th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Cross?: In the 2010 Census, 75% of people named Cross identified as white (not Hispanic), and 18% as Black (not Hispanic).
Who is the most famous person named Cross?: Marcia Cross, American actress, followed by David Cross.
Where is the surname Cross most common?: Wikidata records people named Cross in the United States, the United Kingdom and Australia.
How do you pronounce Cross?: Cross is /kɹɔs/, one syllable.
What type of surname is Cross?: Cross is a place surname, taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.
Is the surname Cross getting more or less common?: More common. 75,134 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 77,557 in 2010, up 3.2%.