Ashcroft

English

Etymology

Habitational surname from two minor places in England, from Old English æsċ (“ash tree”) + croft (“enclosed field”).

Proper noun

Ashcroft (countable and uncountable, plural Ashcrofts)

1. (countable) A surname from Old English.
   • 2024 March 17, Daniel Medina and Bob Ortega, “Emails show how a right-wing group steers GOP leaders on major policy issues”, in CNN‎^[1]:

     When Missouri Secretary of State Jay Ashcroft jumped into the state’s gubernatorial race last year, the Republican vowed to tackle a slew of culture war issues, promising to fight the “woke politics” of “left-wing” banks and touting how he used his position to enact a regulation targeting those financial firms.

2. (uncountable) A placename, from the surname:
   1. A village in the Thompson-Nicola Regional District, British Columbia, Canada.
   2. A ghost town in Pitkin County, Colorado, United States.
   3. A suburb of Sydney in the City of Liverpool, New South Wales, Australia.

Statistics

• According to the 2010 United States Census, Ashcroft is the 16254^th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 1775 individuals. Ashcroft is most common among White (93.24%) individuals.

Further reading

• Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “Ashcroft”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, volume 1, New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 62.