Crozier Family History

English and Scottish: occupational name for one who carried a cross or a bishop's crook or pastoral staff in ecclesiastical processions from Middle English crosier (Old French crosier crocier crosser). It may also denote a seller of crosses or, as a topographic name, a dweller by a cross (compare 2 below).

French: topographic name for a dweller by a cross or crossroad, an agent derivative of croix ‘cross’ (from Latin crux) or a habitational name from Le Crozier in Rhône-Alpes, a placename of the same etymology.