Cruse Family History
Cruse Name Meaning
English: nickname from Middle English cr(o)us(e) ‘bold’,
‘fierce’.English (of Norman origin): habitational name from a
place in France, perhaps Cruys-Staëte in Nord, apparently named
with a Gaulish word crodiu ‘hard’.German: northern
variant of Krause.Americanized spelling of German
Kruse.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Name Distribution of Cruse Families
MAP:
United States
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Cruse families
 61 - 119  21 - 60 |
 1 - 20  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Cruse families
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101 - 199 34 - 100 |
1 - 33 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Cruse families
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6 - 10 3 - 5 |
1 - 2 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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Cruse Family Origin
Cruse Immigration Information
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Average Life Expectancy for Cruse
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Cruse Family Occupations
from 1880 Federal Census Data
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