Crenshaw
surname · Latin script
Meaning: different form of Crankshaw
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/ˈkɹɛnˌʃɔ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Crenshaw is a surname written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in the United States.
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
different form of Crankshaw.
Sources 1
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Where in the world(measured from records)
Crenshaw counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
| Country | Most common spelling | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | — | 18K | — |
| FI Finland | — | 10 | — |
| SE Sweden | — | 4 | — |
| PL Poland | — | 2 | — |
| VC St. Vincent & Grenadines | — | 1 | — |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); Electoral Office of St Vincent & the Grenadines — Final Voters List (Nov 2025). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Anderson Crenshawb. 1783USAmerican jurist (1783-1847)
- John Crenshawb. 1797USAmerican slave trader (1797–1871)
- Ander Crenshawb. 1944USAmerican politician (born 1944)
- Martha Crenshawb. 1945USAmerican expert in terrorism studies
- Ben Crenshawb. 1952USprofessional golfer
- Marshall Crenshawb. 1953USAmerican musician
- Randy Crenshawb. 1955USAmerican actor and singer
- Kimberlé Crenshawb. 1959USAmerican legal academic (born 1959)
- Dave Crenshawb. 1975USAmerican author and public speaker
- Dan Crenshawb. 1984USAmerican politician and former Navy SEAL (born 1984)
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 14 sources across 7 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 18K | #1,995 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 17K | #1,895 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 17K | #2,047 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 4 | #59,238 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 2 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 2 | #319,178 |
| VC St. Vincent & Grenadines | Electoral Office of St Vincent & the Grenadines — Final Voters List (Nov 2025) | 2025 | 1 | #261 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Crenshaw mean, and where does it come from?
- different form of Crankshaw. Recorded by Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history].
- How do you pronounce Crenshaw?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈkɹɛnˌʃɔ/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Crenshaw have the most bearers?
- Crenshaw is most frequently recorded in the United States.
What do you want to know about Crenshaw?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/crenshawThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Crenshaw”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.