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Clinton

in North Carolina

There are 488 people with the last name "Clinton" in North Carolina.

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Ranking in North Carolina

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Clinton 2,179
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  1. is 2,175th most common Lin
  2. is 2,176th most common Macon
  3. is 2,177th most common Springer
  4. is 2,178th most common Ashworth
  5. is 2,179th most common Clinton
  6. is 2,180th most common Messick
  7. is 2,181st most common Stark
  8. is 2,182nd most common Alligood
  9. is 2,183rd most common Bowser

Most Common First Names for Clinton

James, Robert, Michael, Barbara, David, Margaret, Angela, Joyce, Mary, Robin

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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