Crane Family History
Crane Name Meaning
English: nickname, most likely for a tall, thin man with long
legs, from Middle English cran ‘crane’ (the bird), Old English
cran, cron. The term included the heron until the
introduction of a separate word for the latter in the 14th century.Dutch: variant spelling of Krane.English
translation of German Krahn or Kranich.
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Name Distribution of Crane Families
MAP:
United States
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Crane families
 394 - 785  132 - 393 |
 1 - 131  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Crane families
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623 - 1,243 208 - 622 |
1 - 207 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Crane families
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28 - 53 10 - 27 |
1 - 9 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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Crane Family Origin
Crane Immigration Information
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Average Life Expectancy for Crane
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Crane Family Occupations
from 1880 Federal Census Data
Crane census records
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