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Cross

in Illinois

There are 2,457 people with the last name "Cross" in Illinois.

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Ranking in Illinois

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Cross 352
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  1. is 348th most common Hartman
  2. is 349th most common Roth
  3. is 350th most common Salazar
  4. is 351st most common Hale
  5. is 352nd most common Cross
  6. is 353rd most common Watts
  7. is 354th most common Lowe
  8. is 355th most common Horton
  9. is 356th most common Paul

Similar Names and Nicknames

Cruz, Crosby, Crossley, Crossman, Cruse, Crossland, Crosson, Cress, Criss, Crosier

Most Common First Names for Cross

James, Robert, Michael, John, Charles, William, Mary, David, Thomas, Patricia

Meaning & History

English: topographic name for someone who lived near a stone cross set up by the roadside or in a marketplace, from Old Norse kross (via Gaelic from Latin crux, genitive crucis), which in Middle English quickly and comprehensively displaced the Old English form crūc (see Crouch). In a few cases the surname may have been given originally to someone who lived by a crossroads, but this sense of the word seems to have been a comparatively late development. In other cases, the surname (and its European cognates) may have denoted someone who carried the cross in processions of the Christian Church, but in English at least the usual word for this sense was Crozier.

Irish: reduced form of McCrossen.

In North America this name has absorbed examples of cognate names from other languages, such as French Lacroix.

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