The Cramp Family Name

Whether you spell it Cramp or Crump, the story begins in the same place. Name scholars give the meaning as “Crooked”.

• Regional accents shaped spellings long before dictionaries fixed them.
• Cramp writes “a” in place of the “u” found in Crump, a typical scribal difference.
• The same family of names includes Crumpe and Crumb.
• The Census Bureau's 2010 surname file lists Cramp with 370 bearers, at rank 55,505. That puts it among the top 100,000 US surnames.

Family crest and blazon

There is no single Cramp family crest for every bearer. Herald Lab researches the arms historically associated with the name and explains whose they were. Get the complete Cramp report, with a museum-style coat of arms.