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Cross

in the US

There are 62,624 people with the last name "Cross" in the United States.

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Ranking in the US

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Cross 361
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  1. is 357th most common Blair
  2. is 358th most common Ramsey
  3. is 359th most common Barber
  4. is 360th most common Hardy
  5. is 361st most common Cross
  6. is 362nd most common Dennis
  7. is 363rd most common Gross
  8. is 364th most common Simon
  9. is 365th most common Moss

Similar Names and Nicknames

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

Most Common First Names for Cross

James, Robert, John, David, Michael, William, Richard, Mary, Charles, 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 the US

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