Last Name CRABTREE

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Meaning	Local: At the crab-tree, from residence thereby. This is a great Yorkshire surname. It is odd to think that by dwelling beside a particular crab-tree, the descendants of a particular pair should so increase that a perceptably large number of people in the county or York should now be known by the name.

Origin	English, Irish

Rank	1,244 (2000 US census)	1,124 (1990 US census)

Count	25,929 (2000 US census)

Race / ethnic distribution

The 2000 US Census claims that

95.23%, or 24692 total occurrences, of those with this family name identified themselves as being white,
0.96%, or 249 total occurrences, as black,
0.34%, or 88 total occurrences, as Asian and Pacific Islander,
0.91%, or 236 total occurrences, as American Indian and Native Alaskan,
1.23%, or 319 total occurrences, as two or more races, and
1.32%, or 342 total occurrences, as Hispanic ethnic origin.

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