Cracknall Surname

5,587,209th
Most Common
surname in the World

Approximately 12 people bear this surname

Most prevalent in:
Australia
Highest density in:
Australia

Cracknall Surname Definition:

Local or nickname. A curious feature about English nomenclature is the number of surnames which seem inseparably connected with breadbaking. I do not refer to occupative names like Baxter, Baker, Waferer, &c, or local names like Backhouse or Bacchus (q.

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Cracknall Surname Distribution Map

By incidenceBy frequencyBy rank
Incidence (high to low)Incidence (low to high)Alphabetic A-ZAlphabetic Z-ARank (high to low)Rank (low to high)
PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
Australia71:3,856,529135,538
England41:13,929,515290,718
Canada11:36,845,591464,108
Incidence (high to low)Incidence (low to high)Alphabetic A-ZAlphabetic Z-ARank (high to low)Rank (low to high)
PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
England581:420,26524,785
Scotland11:3,743,21632,299

Cracknall Surname Meaning

From Where Does The Surname Originate? meaning and history

Local or nickname. A curious feature about English nomenclature is the number of surnames which seem inseparably connected with breadbaking. I do not refer to occupative names like Baxter, Baker, Waferer, &c, or local names like Backhouse or Bacchus (q.v). I speak of what seem to be nicknames taken from the loaf itself; compare Simnel, Blanchpain, and Whitebread. Yet Blanchpain is local, and Whitebread, or Whitbread, may be a mere translation (v. Blanchpain). A cracknel is a kind of crisp biscuit. 'Crakenelle, brede, copelullus, fraginellus': Promptorium Parvulorum Nevertheless the surname may be local, with suffix -hall or -hill.

1579. Married — Lyonell Craknell and Johane Downe: St. Michael, Cornhill.

1756. — Samuel Cracknell and Elizabeth Wright: St. George, Hanover Square.

— A Dictionary of English and Welsh Surnames (1896) by Charles Wareing Endell Bardsley

(English) Dweller at 1 Craca’s Slope or Corner [Anglo-Saxon Craca, genit. Cracan + heal(h] 2 Craca’s Hall [Old English heall] Hardly a nickname from the biscuit so called.

— Surnames of the United Kingdom (1912) by Henry Harrison

From Craigneill; a location name in Edinbgh.

— British Family Names: Their Origin and Meaning (1903) by Henry Barber
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Cracknall Last Name Facts

Where Does The Last Name Cracknall Come From? nationality or country of origin

The last name Cracknall is found in Australia more than any other country/territory. It can be found as a variant:. Click here for further potential spellings of Cracknall.

How Common Is The Last Name Cracknall? popularity and diffusion

Cracknall is the 5,587,209th most commonly occurring family name world-wide, borne by around 1 in 607,295,493 people. The last name Cracknall is primarily found in Oceania, where 58 percent of Cracknall live; 58 percent live in Australasia and 58 percent live in Australia and New Zealand.

This last name is most commonly occurring in Australia, where it is carried by 7 people, or 1 in 3,856,529. In Australia Cracknall is mostly concentrated in: Victoria, where 100 percent live. Beside Australia it occurs in 2 countries. It is also found in England, where 33 percent live and Canada, where 8 percent live.

Cracknall Family Population Trend historical fluctuation

The occurrence of Cracknall has changed through the years. In England the number of people carrying the Cracknall surname contracted 93 percent between 1881 and 2014.

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