Cline

47,748 people in the United States were counted with the surname Cline in the 2020 census, making it the 699th most common in the country. That is about one person in 6,260.

By the numbers

People: 47,748
Rank: 699th
How common: 1 in 6,260
Per 100,000: 16.0

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 89.5%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 3.9%
Hispanic or Latino 2.9%
Black, not Hispanic 2.3%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.7%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.6%

Notable people called Cline

Patsy Cline (1932–1963)American country singer
Madelyn Cline (born 1997)American actress
Ernest Cline (born 1972)American novelist, slam poet, and screenwriter
Edward F. Cline (1891–1961)American actor and director
Nels Cline (born 1956)American guitarist and composer
Ben Cline (born 1972)American politician in Virginia
Emma Cline (born 1989)American writer
Eric H. Cline (born 1960)American archaeologist and historian

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

Surnames like Cline

Also a first name

Cline has been given to 857 American babies as a first name since 1894, peaking in 1932. See it as a given name.

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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.