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Clinton

in South Carolina

There are 396 people with the last name "Clinton" in South Carolina.

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Ranking in South Carolina

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Clinton 1,392
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  1. is 1,388th most common Hanks
  2. is 1,389th most common Walter
  3. is 1,390th most common Bowens
  4. is 1,391st most common Clemons
  5. is 1,392nd most common Clinton
  6. is 1,393rd most common Sease
  7. is 1,394th most common Steadman
  8. is 1,395th most common Burr
  9. is 1,396th most common Castro

Most Common First Names for Clinton

James, John, William, Pamela, Christopher, David, Mary, Richard, Thomas, Angela

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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