Cruise () is an
Anglo-Norman surname which originated in
England
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during
Norman Conquest
The Norman Conquest (or the Conquest) was the 11th-century invasion and occupation of England by an army made up of thousands of Norman, Breton, Flemish, and French troops, all led by the Duke of Normandy, later styled William the Conq ...
. It is a variant form of
Cruce
Cruce is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
* Jamie Cruce, American football coach and player
* Lee Cruce (1863–1933), American lawyer, banker, and politician
* Petrus de Cruce (13th century), French cleric, composer, and musi ...
,
Cruys
Cornelius Cruys ( no, Niels Creutz, i=no, russian: Корнелий Крюйс, i=no; 14 June 1655 – 14 June 1727) was a Norwegian–Dutch admiral of the Imperial Russian Navy, and the first commander of the Russian Baltic Fleet.
Earl ...
,
Cruse; others include
Cruwys Cruce is a surname which today is mainly found in America, Australia, Canada, England, Ireland and Wales. It is a variant form of Cruwys ruysCruice] ruisedeCruis]; there are many others.
Notable people with this surname
* saac Newton Cruce17 ...
and Cruize. The surname Cruise was found in
Bedfordshire
Bedfordshire (; abbreviated Beds) is a ceremonial county in the East of England. The county has been administered by three unitary authorities, Borough of Bedford, Central Bedfordshire and Borough of Luton, since Bedfordshire County Council ...
(Old English: Bedanfordscir), located in Southeast-central England, formerly part of the Anglo-Saxon kingdom of
Mercia
la, Merciorum regnum
, conventional_long_name=Kingdom of Mercia
, common_name=Mercia
, status=Kingdom
, status_text=Independent kingdom (527–879)Client state of Wessex ()
, life_span=527–918
, era= Heptarchy
, event_start=
, date_start=
, ...
.
In Ireland, Cruise is an old surname of
Anglo-Norman origin which has been present there since the
Anglo-Norman invasion in 1169. The family held lands in Counties Dublin and Meath. In early records the name is mostly spelled de Cruys/Cruys, and sometimes Cruce or Crues, but the spelling evolved to Cruise, and this is now the predominant spelling of the surname in
Ireland
Ireland ( ; ga, Éire ; Ulster Scots dialect, Ulster-Scots: ) is an island in the Atlantic Ocean, North Atlantic Ocean, in Northwestern Europe, north-western Europe. It is separated from Great Britain to its east by the North Channel (Grea ...
today. Some time before 1176 Augustino de Cruce witnessed a grant by
Strongbow of land in Dublin, and this is the earliest reference to the surname in Ireland found to date.
[T. Gilbert (ed.), Register of the abbey of St Thomas, Dublin (London, 1889), 370. Cited in An Archaeological and Historical Assessment of Cruicetown Church and Graveyard, Cruicetown, Co. Meath. Commissioned by the Cruicetown Cemetery Conservation Committee and carried out by the Discovery Programme’s Medieval Rural Settlement Project, issued 27 May 2005.]
Frequency and distribution
*Most prevalent in:
United States
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with 4,682 people.
*Highest density in:
Republic of Ireland
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506 people (a frequency of 1:9,306) and 1,280th most common surname.
People with the surname Cruise
*
Conor Cruise O'Brien (1917-2008), Irish politician
*
Jack Cruise (1915-1979), Irish comedian and actor
*
Julee Cruise
Julee Ann Cruise (December 1, 1956 – June 9, 2022) was an American singer, songwriter and actress, known for her collaborations with composer Angelo Badalamenti and film director David Lynch in the late 1980s and early 1990s. She released fo ...
(1956–2022), American singer
*
Tom Cruise
Thomas Cruise Mapother IV (born July 3, 1962), known professionally as Tom Cruise, is an American actor and producer. One of the world's highest-paid actors, he has received various accolades, including an Honorary Palme d'Or and three Go ...
(1962), American actor and film producer
See also
*
Cruse (surname) Cruse is a surname of English origin.
There are many variant spellings, including Crewes, Crewis, Crews, Cruce, Cruise, Cruize, Crus, Cruwys, De Cruce and De Cruze.
People
* Bruce Cruse (born 1967), Australian cricketer
* Cindy Cruse-Ratcliff ( ...
*
Cruz
Cruz is a surname of Iberian origin, first found in Castile, Spain, but later spread throughout the territories of the former Spanish and Portuguese Empires. In Spanish and Portuguese, the word means "cross", either the Christian cross or ...
, Spanish surname with the same sound but unrelated, meaning "cross"
References
External links
The Cruise one-name study
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English-language surnames
de:Cruise
fr:Cruise
ko:크루즈
nl:Cruise
ja:クルーズ