Crawford

Popularity Trends

The name Crawford is the #4,013 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 4,629 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 48.1% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 48.1% of all names). For boys, it ranks #1,790 (61.0% percentile) for all time with 4,588 births since 1880. For girls, it ranks #5,675 (0.7% percentile) for all time with 41 births since 2012.

Crawford has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880 (since 1880 for boys and since 2012 for girls). Birth data for Crawford is available in 143 out of the 144 years between 1880 and 2023 (143 years for boys and 6 years for girls). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.

The name Crawford has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 99.1% of all recorded births being male. In 2023, 86.7% of babies named Crawford were boys.

For boys, Crawford reached its peak popularity in 1917, achieving the 15.3% percentile (ranked #438) with 88 births per million. The name was most common in 1896, with 155 births per million (ranked 6.6% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2009, the popularity of this name for boys has been increasing. Currently, Crawford ranks #864 for boys (5.2% percentile) with 28 births per million, which is 18.3% of its peak share of births.

For girls, Crawford reached its peak popularity in 2023, achieving the 0.3% percentile (ranked #944) with 5 births per million. The name was most common in 2023, with 5 births per million (ranked 0.3% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2020, the popularity of this name for girls has been increasing. Currently, Crawford is at or near its peak popularity for girls, ranked #944 (0.3% percentile) with 5 births per million.

This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Crawford".

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Key Statistics

Total Births

Peak Births

Peak Year

2023

First Recorded

2012

Peak Percentile

0.3%

Current Percentile

0.3%

Peak Rank

#944

Current Rank

#944

Female statistics

Total Births

4,588

Peak Births

Peak Year

1917

First Recorded

1880

Peak Percentile

15.3%

Current Percentile

5.2%

Peak Rank

#438

Current Rank

#864

Male statistics

Names That Sound Similar

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Names with Similar Spellings

These similar-looking names have spellings that are closest to the spelling of "Crawford", in the sense that there are the fewest number of letter differences between the two spellings. These names exclude other spelling variations of this name. View all variations of Crawford.

Names with Correlated Trends

These 12 names have popularity trends that correlate most strongly with the name Crawford's popularity from 1880 to 2023 on a gender-neutral basis. Names may rise and fall in popularity for a variety of reasons, but correlations often reflect either changes in naming fashion or demographic shifts.

The correlation calculations in the table below ignore absolute popularity to show you names that move in similar directions as the name Crawford at the same time. They also correct for changes in the overall birth rate over time. The 0-100% trend values are calculated by dividing each name's gender-neutral births per million by the peak births per million for that name.

The 12 names most strongly correlated to Crawford range from Emile at 91.7% correlation to Edith at 90.3% correlation, with an average correlation level of 90.6%. The most popular of these 12 most correlated names is Edith with 270.5K births (100% girls) and the least popular is Otho with 3.3K births (100% boys).

Crawford's share of births peaked at 155 births per million in 1896 (4.6 for girls in 2023 and 155 for boys in 1917). It reached its lowest point of 5.2 births per million (3% of peak) in 1985. In 2023, the most recent period with data, the name Crawford had 33 births per million, 21% of its peak popularity.

This chart shows how each name's popularity has changed over time relative to its peak (100%).

Emile

9,135

91.68% (very strong)

Maybelle

6,274

91.10% (very strong)

Agnes

159.5k

91.03% (very strong)

Sam

127.9k

90.58% (very strong)

Alta

29k

90.56% (very strong)

Junius

5,357

90.54% (very strong)

Ola

30.2k

90.50% (very strong)

Homer

61.2k

90.43% (very strong)

Mack

41.6k

90.41% (very strong)

Otho

3,328

90.34% (very strong)

Vida

12k

90.33% (very strong)

Edith

270.5k

90.28% (very strong)

About this table: Correlation values are shown as percentages from 0% to 100%, with each value accompanied by its strength (very weak to very strong). Higher percentages and stronger correlations indicate names that rise and fall together more closely in popularity. The strength labels are color-coded from gray (very weak) to green (very strong). The Trend column visualizes how each name's popularity has changed over time relative to its peak. Absolute correlation values are shown for simplicity (all correlations here are positive). The Total Births column is color-coded by gender distribution - blue shades for predominantly male names and red shades for predominantly female names, with purple hues indicating a more balanced gender distribution.

How to Pronounce Crawford

Our model found one way to pronounce the name Crawford. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.

Our model is 100.0% confident that Crawford is pronounced as KRAW-ferd, which has 2 syllables.

KRAW-ferd

100.0%

KRAW-ferd (2 syllables)

Verified

100.0% confidence

K R AO1 F ER0 D

Possible Additional Pronunciations

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About Pronunciation Data

Our confidence scores estimate the likelihood that a particular pronunciation is the most correct for a given name spelling. These scores are derived from pronunciation dictionaries, manual verification, your feedback, and a fine-tuned large language model trained to generate name pronunciations.

For any given spelling, confidence scores across all identified pronunciations sum to 100%. However, these scores don't account for the possibility of valid pronunciations that our model hasn't identified.

The raw pronunciations shown (like K R AO1 F ER0 D) use the ARPAbet phoneme system, a standardized way to represent English speech sounds. Each symbol represents a distinct sound in American English. Visit the ARPAbet Wikipedia page to learn more about these phonetic symbols.

Pronunciation audio is generated by an open source text to speech model that has been customized to adhere to pronunciations provided in ARPAbet format, but sometimes pronunciations that differ subtly will sound identical, particularly if the only difference is the level of emphasis on a syllable or a single vowel sound.

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