Last name origins & meanings:
- English: topographic name for someone who lived near a stone
cross set up by the roadside or in a marketplace, from Old Norse
kross (via Gaelic from Latin crux, genitive
crucis), which in Middle English quickly and comprehensively
displaced the Old English form crūc (see Crouch). In
a few cases the surname may have been given originally to someone who
lived by a crossroads, but this sense of the word seems to have been a
comparatively late development. In other cases, the surname (and its
European cognates) may have denoted someone who carried the cross in
processions of the Christian Church, but in English at least the usual
word for this sense was Crozier.
- Irish: reduced form of
McCrossen.
- In North America this name has absorbed examples
of cognate names from other languages, such as French Lacroix.
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