Last Name CRYER

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Meaning	The crier, one who announced the mandate of bench and concil; one who raised the 'hue and cry'; the common criere.

Origin	English, Jewish, Irish

Rank	9,546 (2000 US census)	14,661 (1990 US census)

Count	3,124 (2000 US census)

Race / ethnic distribution

The 2000 US Census claims that

77.5%, or 2421 total occurrences, of those with this family name identified themselves as being white,
17.29%, or 540 total occurrences, as black,
0.35%, or 11 total occurrences, as Asian and Pacific Islander,
1.15%, or 36 total occurrences, as American Indian and Native Alaskan,
2.21%, or 69 total occurrences, as two or more races, and
1.5%, or 47 total occurrences, as Hispanic ethnic origin.

As with many things that are 'Russian,' neither child nor his parents has much choice in picking the name. It is purely patronymic and generally predefined at the time when the child is born or even rather conceived. The name is derived from the child's father's first...

Longest last names

The 2000 USA census contains more than 150,000 surnames. The longest surnames contain 15 characters each. There are 23 names like that. There could be more of those last names in reality. Firstly because it has been 10+ years since the survey and we could have gotten...

Ukrainian middle names

Ukrainian middle names form the same way as Russian ones, except that for girls, the patronymic ending is '-ivna' rather than '-ovna' or '-evna.' Follow the Russian middle names link to get any additional information.