as a Last Name
- 15,553
- people in the U.S. have this name View all people named Cleary
Meaning & Origins
Irish: reduced Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Cléirigh (or Mac Cléirigh) ‘descendant (or son) of the scribe, clerk, or cleric (cléireach)’, also commonly Anglicized as Clark.
| 2,025th in the U.S. for 2011 |
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- Thousands
- of people in the U.S have this name
- 15,553
- to be exact (as of February 2011)
- Massachusetts
- has the most people named Cleary per capita
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