Crawford

Where Crawford comes from

Wiktionary's etymology listing comes up empty for Crawford.

Crawford through the years
  1. 1815
    Crawford Williamson Long born
    American physician
  2. 1880
    First SSA year
    Already #682 among boys, with 8 babies in the first year on record.
  3. 1896
    Peak, #438
    20 babies named Crawford, its best rank.
  4. 1899
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births, down to #714.
  5. 1970
    Crawford Palmer born
    French-American basketball player
In the dictionary

Wiktionary has no entry for this spelling.

Namesakes
  • Crawford Williamson Long · American physician, 1815–1878
  • Crawford Palmer · French-American basketball player, born 1970
  • Crawford Howell Toy · American biblical and Hebrew scholar, 1836–1919
  • Crawford Greenewalt · American chemical engineer, 1902–1993
  • Crawford S. Holling · Canadian ecologist, 1930–2019

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.