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Cross

in Pennsylvania

There are 1,828 people with the last name "Cross" in Pennsylvania.

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Ranking in Pennsylvania

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Cross 525
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  1. is 521st most common Webster
  2. is 522nd most common Maxwell
  3. is 523rd most common Briggs
  4. is 524th most common Callahan
  5. is 525th most common Cross
  6. is 526th most common Singer
  7. is 527th most common Glover
  8. is 528th most common Wilkinson
  9. is 529th most common Bair

Similar Names and Nicknames

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

Most Common First Names for Cross

Robert, James, William, Charles, John, David, Michael, Donald, Richard, Thomas

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 Pennsylvania

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Robert Cross, PA (9 searches)
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