Given name & surname · also Middle English
Crow
“crow, raven”
Crow is a surname with more than one origin.
Meaning & origin
What it means
As an Irish surname, it goes back to a word meaning “crow, raven.”
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Where it comes from
Crow has more than one origin: in one tradition, it comes from Middle English Crowe; as an Irish surname, it comes from Irish fiach.
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The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 2024. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Crow through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 12
- 12 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 2025
- 7 babies
- 2025
- 7
- #9,911 for boys
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 7 U.S. birth records for boys, ranking No. 9,911 among boys’ names. The recent annual counts are too incomplete to establish a ten-year comparison. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 23,432 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.
Crow’s family of names
In English usage, Crow as a surname has a related form in CRAW. In English usage, Crow as a surname continues an earlier form in CROWE.
Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 1
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Across languages 3
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
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