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Clinton

in Illinois

There are 560 people with the last name "Clinton" in Illinois.

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Ranking in Illinois

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Clinton 1,937
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  1. is 1,933rd most common Galvin
  2. is 1,934th most common Schmid
  3. is 1,935th most common Storm
  4. is 1,936th most common Casas
  5. is 1,937th most common Clinton
  6. is 1,938th most common Fahey
  7. is 1,939th most common Gil
  8. is 1,940th most common Schrock
  9. is 1,941st most common Gant

Most Common First Names for Clinton

James, Robert, John, William, Joseph, Mary, David, Karen, Larry, Thomas

Meaning & History

Irish: reduced form of McClinton.

English: habitational name, either from Glympton in Oxfordshire, named as ‘settlement (Old English tūn) on the Glym river’, a Celtic river name meaning ‘bright stream’, or from Glinton in Cambridgeshire, recorded in 1060 as Clinton (named with an unrecorded Old English element akin to Middle Low German glinde ‘enclosure’, ‘fence’ + Old English tūn).

FOREBEARS Charles Clinton (born 1690 in Longford, Ireland) organized a group of colonists and founded the settlement of Little Britain, Ulster county, NY, in 1731. His son George Clinton (1739–1812) was governor of NY (1777–95), and they had many prominent descendants.An English aristocratic family called Clinton was founded by Geoffrey de Clinton (fl. 1130), who held lands at Glympton, Oxfordshire. He was chamberlain and treasurer to Henry I (1100–35).

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