How common is the surname Crowder?

24,396 people in the United States had the surname Crowder in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 12,656 Americans. It ranked 1,460th of 162,253 surnames.

Who is the most famous person named Crowder?

Jae Crowder, American basketball player (born 1990), followed by Steven Crowder.

Where is the surname Crowder most common?

Wikidata records people named Crowder in the United States.

How do you pronounce Crowder?

Crowder is /ˈkɹaʊdɚ/, 2 syllables.

Is the surname Crowder getting more or less common?

More common. 23,409 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 24,396 in 2010, up 4.2%.

The surname Crowder

An occupational surname, carried by 24,396 people in the United States.

Pronounced /ˈkɹaʊdɚ/ 2 syllables Soundex C636

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Crowder is more common than 99.1% of them.

Origin

From crowder, an occupational surname for someone who played the crwth.

Crowder is an occupational surname: named after the work an ancestor did.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 24,396 people named Crowder in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 12,656 Americans. That is up 4.2% since 2000, when the Census counted 23,409.

#1,460

rank among US surnames

24,396

people in 2010

8.3

per 100,000 Americans

+4.2%

change since 2000 (was #1,387)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#1,451	Tatum	24,558	12,572
#1,452	Schafer	24,543	12,580
#1,454	Bustamante	24,536	12,583
#1,455	Stover	24,526	12,588
#1,456	Teague	24,514	12,595
#1,457	Gunter	24,513	12,595
#1,458	Burrell	24,504	12,600

Who is named Crowder

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

67% of people named Crowder identified as white (not Hispanic), 28% as Black (not Hispanic) and 2.3% as two or more races.

White (not Hispanic) 67%
Black (not Hispanic) 28%
Two or more races 2.3%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.1%
American Indian and Alaska Native 0.7%
Asian and Pacific Islander 0.4%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Famous Crowders

4 notable people on Wikidata, most written-about first

Jae Crowder
American basketball player (born 1990)
Steven Crowder
American-Canadian conservative political commentator, born 1987
Lateef Crowder Dos Santos
American actor, born 1977
Corey Crowder
American basketball player (born 1969)

Spellings and sound-alikes

Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling

Variant spellings

Crowther

Surnames that sound like Crowder

Crowder has the Soundex code C636, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code C636.

Questions

Where does the surname Crowder come from?: From crowder, an occupational surname for someone who played the crwth.
How common is the surname Crowder?: 24,396 people in the United States had the surname Crowder in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 12,656 Americans. It ranked 1,460th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Crowder?: In the 2010 Census, 67% of people named Crowder identified as white (not Hispanic), and 28% as Black (not Hispanic).
Who is the most famous person named Crowder?: Jae Crowder, American basketball player (born 1990), followed by Steven Crowder.
Where is the surname Crowder most common?: Wikidata records people named Crowder in the United States.
How do you pronounce Crowder?: Crowder is /ˈkɹaʊdɚ/, 2 syllables.
What type of surname is Crowder?: Crowder is an occupational surname, named after the work an ancestor did.
Is the surname Crowder getting more or less common?: More common. 23,409 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 24,396 in 2010, up 4.2%.
What are other spellings of Crowder?: Crowther.