Cranswick

English

Etymology

Perhaps from Old English cran (“crane”) + -s- + wīċ (“village”).

Proper noun

Cranswick (countable and uncountable, plural Cranswicks)

1. A suburban village in Hutton Cranswick parish, East Riding of Yorkshire, England (OS grid ref TA0252).
2. A habitational surname from Old English.

Statistics

• According to data collected by Forebears in 2014, Cranswick is the 16229^th most common surname in England, belonging to 310 individuals.

Further reading

• Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “Cranswick”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, volume 1, New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 381.