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Cross

in North Carolina

There are 1,904 people with the last name "Cross" in North Carolina.

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Ranking in North Carolina

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Cross 548
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  1. is 544th most common Odom
  2. is 545th most common Mullis
  3. is 546th most common Cochran
  4. is 547th most common Mclamb
  5. is 548th most common Cross
  6. is 549th most common Leach
  7. is 550th most common Corbett
  8. is 551st most common Eason
  9. is 552nd most common Mcintyre

Similar Names and Nicknames

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

Most Common First Names for Cross

James, William, John, Robert, Charles, Richard, David, Linda, Thomas, Mary

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.

Recent Searches for "Cross" in North Carolina

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