Crawford

Where Crawford comes from

Crawford hasn't made it into the dictionaries we draw on, and nobody well known enough for an encyclopedia has carried it yet — so for now its story is the one the SSA record tells. Names that spell a familiar sound a new way often live here for a while before anyone writes them down.

Along the way
  1. 1815
    Crawford Williamson Long born
    American physician
  2. 1880
    First SSA year
    Already #682 among boys — 8 babies in the first year on record.
  3. 1896
    Peak, #438
    20 babies named Crawford — more than any year before or since.
  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

No dictionary entry for this spelling — which is its own kind of rare.

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.