Given name & surname
Crane
“resembling the long-legged bird”
Crane is used as a given name and a surname. One English interpretation is “resembling the long-legged bird.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
One English interpretation is “resembling the long-legged bird.”
Where it comes from
An origin associated with this spelling is English.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1962. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Crane through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 5
- 5 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 1962
- 5 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for boys is 5 in 1962. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 129 as a first name in 2020; 36,578 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Crane’s family of names
Crane has a related form in Craen. Crane has a related form in Craene. Crane has a related form in Crain.
Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 7
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Across languages 1
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
Appears in
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