Claiborne

At the 2020 census, 5,061 Americans bore the surname Claiborne — 6,458th out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 59,100.

By the numbers

People: 5,061
Rank: 6,458th
How common: 1 in 59,100
Per 100,000: 1.7

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Claiborne described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

Black, not Hispanic 56.7%
White, not Hispanic 32.5%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 5.8%
Hispanic or Latino 3.8%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.6%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.6%

Notable people called Claiborne

Liz Claiborne (1929–2007)American fashion designer
William C. C. Claiborne (1775–1817)American frontier politician (c.1773–1817)
Shane Claiborne (born 1975)American activist and author

People named Claiborne with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Surnames like Claiborne

Also a first name

Claiborne has been given to 1,237 American babies as a first name since 1889, peaking in 1918. See it as a given name.

Try it on yourself

Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.