How common is the surname Cruickshank?

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

Who is the most famous person named Cruickshank?

William Cruickshank, British chemist and surgeon, followed by Dan Cruickshank.

Where is the surname Cruickshank most common?

Wikidata records people named Cruickshank in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and the United Kingdom.

Is the surname Cruickshank getting more or less common?

More common. 2,025 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 2,111 in 2010, up 4.2%.

The surname Cruickshank

A nickname surname, carried by 2,111 people in the United States.

2 syllables Soundex C625

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Cruickshank is more common than 91.2% of them.

Origin

From Scots Cruickshank, from cruick (“bent; lame”) + shank (“leg”).

Cruickshank is a nickname surname: from a description or nickname of an ancestor.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 2,111 people named Cruickshank in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 146,256 Americans. That is up 4.2% since 2000, when the Census counted 2,025.

#14,215

rank among US surnames

2,111

people in 2010

0.7

per 100,000 Americans

+4.2%

change since 2000 (was #13,724)

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 Cruickshank

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

76% of people named Cruickshank identified as white (not Hispanic), 18% as Black (not Hispanic) and 2.6% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

White (not Hispanic) 76%
Black (not Hispanic) 18%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.6%
Two or more races 1.1%
American Indian and Alaska Native 0.8%
Asian and Pacific Islander 0.7%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Famous Cruickshanks

2 notable people on Wikidata, most written-about first

William Cruickshank
British chemist and surgeon, 1800–1809
Dan Cruickshank
Architectural historian, presenter, born 1949

Notable Cruickshanks come mostly from the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland (1) and the United Kingdom (1).

Spellings and sound-alikes

Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling

Variant spellings

Crookshanks

Surnames that sound like Cruickshank

Cruickshank has the Soundex code C625, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code C625.

Questions

Where does the surname Cruickshank come from?: From Scots Cruickshank, from cruick (“bent; lame”) + shank (“leg”).
How common is the surname Cruickshank?: 2,111 people in the United States had the surname Cruickshank in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 146,256 Americans. It ranked 14,215th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Cruickshank?: In the 2010 Census, 76% of people named Cruickshank identified as white (not Hispanic), and 18% as Black (not Hispanic).
Who is the most famous person named Cruickshank?: William Cruickshank, British chemist and surgeon, followed by Dan Cruickshank.
Where is the surname Cruickshank most common?: Wikidata records people named Cruickshank in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and the United Kingdom.
What type of surname is Cruickshank?: Cruickshank is a nickname surname, from a description or nickname of an ancestor.
Is the surname Cruickshank getting more or less common?: More common. 2,025 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 2,111 in 2010, up 4.2%.
What are other spellings of Cruickshank?: Crookshanks.