Cleveland

At the 2020 census, 29,935 Americans bore the surname Cleveland — 1,151st out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 9,985.

By the numbers

People: 29,935
Rank: 1,151st
How common: 1 in 9,985
Per 100,000: 10.0

Where the name comes from

From place names in England (i.e. Cleveland, England), from Middle English Cleveland, Clyveland, from Middle English clive, cleve, cleove (“cliff”) + land, equivalent.

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 64.3%
Black, not Hispanic 24.5%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.6%
Hispanic or Latino 3.1%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 2.8%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.7%

Notable people called Cleveland

Grover Cleveland (1837–1908)President of the United States (1885–89; 1893–97)
Frances Cleveland (1864–1947)First Lady of the United States from 1886 to 1889 and 1893 to 1897
Rose Cleveland (1846–1918)First Lady of United States
Davis Cleveland (born 2002)American actor
Carol Cleveland (born 1942)American-British actress
Jimmy Cleveland (1926–2008)American jazz trombonist

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

Surnames like Cleveland

Also a first name

Cleveland has been given to 22,032 American babies as a first name since 1880, peaking in 1947. 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.