as a Last Name
- 26,857
- people in the U.S. have this name Get contact details for people named Clifton
Meaning & Origins
English: habitational name from any of numerous places named Clifton, from Old English clif ‘slope’ (see Cliff) + tūn ‘enclosure’, ‘settlement’.
| 1,330th in the U.S. for 2011 |
Nicknames & variations
Quick facts
- Tens of Thousands
- of people in the U.S have this name
- 26,857
- to be exact (as of February 2011)
- Guam
- has the most people named Clifton per capita
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