Crocket Surname

386,017th
Most Common
surname in the World

Approximately 920 people bear this surname

Most prevalent in:
United States
Highest density in:
Scotland

Crocket Surname Definition:

This surname is derived from a geographical locality. The origin is undoubtedly local, but I cannot discover the precise spot.

William de Cruket, Southamptonshire, 20 Edward I: Placita de Quo Warranto, temp. Edward I-III.

Avicia de Cruket, Dorset, Henry III-Edward I: Testa de Nevill, sive Liber Feodorum, temp.

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Crocket Surname Distribution Map

PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
United States5261:689,08554,664
Scotland1241:43,1763,951
Australia1001:269,95724,430
England651:857,20145,134
Canada451:818,79163,991
New Zealand251:181,13319,287
Jamaica71:409,9929,090
South Africa51:10,835,541204,227
Wales51:618,90625,852
Netherlands21:8,443,588136,641
Norway21:2,571,14395,402
Russia21:72,061,528727,117
Switzerland11:8,212,915156,297
Austria11:8,515,435118,036
Belgium11:11,496,644167,539
Brazil11:214,074,3321,693,628
Czechia11:10,633,469206,023
United Arab Emirates11:9,162,273135,437
Thailand11:70,638,3451,175,915
Israel11:8,557,634182,558
France11:66,422,722504,397
Germany11:80,505,459560,955
Mexico11:124,126,205103,776
Italy11:61,156,688199,583
PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
Ireland41:1,107,46726,093
PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
Scotland2171:17,2501,832
England1531:159,31613,825
Wales171:92,2604,121
PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
United States1,8581:27,0283,318

Crocket (32) may also be a first name.

Crocket Surname Meaning

From Where Does The Surname Originate? meaning and history

This surname is derived from a geographical locality. The origin is undoubtedly local, but I cannot discover the precise spot.

William de Cruket, Southamptonshire, 20 Edward I: Placita de Quo Warranto, temp. Edward I-III.

Avicia de Cruket, Dorset, Henry III-Edward I: Testa de Nevill, sive Liber Feodorum, temp. Henry III-Edward I.

Thomas de Cruket, Dorset, ibid.

1647. Married — James Hattch and Jone Crockett: St. James, Clerkenwell.

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

(Anglo-French-Teut.) Crooked Person [the French Croquet, diminutive of croc, a crook; Old Norse krók-r, a crook, hook, bend] Parmi les notables commerçants de Paris dans la 2e moitié du XVIe siècle se trouvait un Nicolas Croquet.—Moisy, Noms de Fam. Norm., p. 92.

The palatal form Crochet is now the commoner in the Paris Directory.

N.B.—Tire Middle English cro(c)ket, ‘a curl,’ may, as a nickname, also have given rise to this surname.

Surnames of the United Kingdom (1912) by Henry Harrison

(English) The little crooked or deformed person.

Dictionary of American Family Names (1956) by Elsdon Coles Smith

Crooked, bent.

The Origin and Signification of Scottish Surnames (1862) by Clifford Stanley Sims (1839-1896)

Kroget, Danish, crooked, bowed, bent.

An Etymological Dictionary of Family and Christian Names (1857) by William Arthur

Crocket: A good old nurse, one of the faithful of the past generation, was a Crocket of ancient Norman extraction, doubtless from Criquetot in Normandy.

Family Names And Their Story (1913) by Sabine Baring-Gould

Crocket Last Name Facts

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

Crocket occurs most in The United States. It can occur as:. Click here for other potential spellings of this name.

How Common Is The Last Name Crocket? popularity and diffusion

The last name is the 386,017th most common surname on a global scale It is held by approximately 1 in 7,921,246 people. This last name is predominantly found in The Americas, where 53 percent of Crocket are found; 52 percent are found in North America and 52 percent are found in Anglo-North America. It is also the 1,840,253rd most frequently occurring first name world-wide It is held by 32 people.

The surname Crocket is most widely held in The United States, where it is carried by 526 people, or 1 in 689,085. In The United States it is most common in: Texas, where 10 percent live, Michigan, where 5 percent live and Florida, where 5 percent live. Besides The United States Crocket occurs in 23 countries. It is also common in Scotland, where 13 percent live and Australia, where 11 percent live.

Crocket Family Population Trend historical fluctuation

The occurrence of Crocket has changed over time. In The United States the number of people who held the Crocket last name contracted 72 percent between 1880 and 2014; in Scotland it contracted 43 percent between 1881 and 2014; in England it contracted 58 percent between 1881 and 2014 and in Wales it contracted 71 percent between 1881 and 2014.

Crocket Last Name Statistics demography

The religious devotion of those bearing the Crocket surname is primarily Catholic (50%) in Ireland.

In The United States those bearing the Crocket last name are 10.09% more likely to be registered with the Republican Party than the national average, with 56.86% registered with the party.

The amount Crocket earn in different countries varies greatly. In South Africa they earn 52.85% less than the national average, earning R 112,044 per year; in United States they earn 11.77% less than the national average, earning $38,070 USD per year and in Canada they earn 10.05% more than the national average, earning $54,676 CAD per year.

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