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Clinton

in the US

There are 13,466 people with the last name "Clinton" in the United States.

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Ranking in the US

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Clinton 2,067
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  1. is 2,063rd most common Kellogg
  2. is 2,064th most common Burk
  3. is 2,065th most common Castellanos
  4. is 2,066th most common Arnett
  5. is 2,067th most common Clinton
  6. is 2,068th most common Easley
  7. is 2,069th most common Marcum
  8. is 2,070th most common Ruth
  9. is 2,071st most common Burkhart

Most Common First Names for Clinton

James, John, William, Robert, David, Mary, Michael, Richard, Charles, 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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