Ashcroft

English Etymology Habitational surname from two minor places in England, from en ang æsċ ash tree + ang croft enclosed field. Proper noun ~ en countable en Old English. en Daniel Medina and Bob Ortega Emails show how a right-wing group steers GOP leaders on major policy issues w:CNN https://www.cnn.com/2024/03/17/politics/dark-money-fga-ashcroft-invs/index.html 2024-03-17 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. https://web.archive.org/web/20260623083134/https://www.cnn.com/2024/03/17/politics/dark-money-fga-ashcroft-invs/index.html 23 June 2026 en uncountable A placename, from the surname: en village rdist:Suf/Thompson-Nicola p/British Columbia c/Canada. en ghost town co/Pitkin County s/Colorado c/US. en suburb city/Sydney in the city:Pref/Liverpool s/New South Wales c/Australia. Statistics According to the 2010 United States Census, Ashcroft is the 16254th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 1775 individuals. Ashcroft is most common among White (93.24%) individuals. Further reading