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The crosby Surname

crosby Name Meaning and History

  1. Scottish and English: habitational name from any of various places in southwestern Scotland and northern England that are named with Old Norse kross ‘cross’ + býr ‘farm’, ‘settlement’.
  2. Irish: Scottish and English surname (see 1 above) adopted by bearers of Gaelic Mac an Chrosáin (see McCrossen).

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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The crosby name in History

A unique volume of fascinating facts, statistics and commentary following the crosby family name as far back in history as possible.

crosby Family Facts

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Distribution of crosby Families in the US in 1920
Number of crosby families
 305-607
 102-304		 1-101
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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