Crisp Family History
- Crisp Name Meaning
- English: nickname for a man with curly hair, from Middle English crisp, Old English crisp, cryps (Latin crispus), reinforced in Middle English by an Old French word also from Latin crispus. Americanized spelling of the German cognate Krisp, from Middle High German krisp, krispel ‘curly-haired man’. Americanized form of German Krisp, from a short form the medieval personal name Krispin (see Crispin).
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 904,872 Historical Documents with Crisp on Ancestry
- 229,995 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 158,540 Census and Voter Lists
- 17,239 Military Records
- 9,174 Immigration Records
- 489,924 Member Trees
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Number of Crisp families
 431 - 860  144 - 430 |
 1 - 143  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Crisp families
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4 - 6 2 - 3 |
1 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Crisp census records
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from the New York Passengers List
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from 1881 UK Census Data
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