Clinton

15,615 people in the United States were counted with the surname Clinton in the 2020 census, making it the 2,274th most common in the country. That is about one person in 19,100.

By the numbers

People: 15,615
Rank: 2,274th
How common: 1 in 19,100
Per 100,000: 5.2

Where the name comes from

A habitational surname, derived from places named Glinton ("town on a hill") or Glympton ("settlement on the River Glyme"), from Old English + tun, equivalent to the modern.

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 61.9%
Black, not Hispanic 27.1%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.9%
Hispanic or Latino 3.9%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 1.2%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 1.1%

Notable people called Clinton

Bill Clinton (born 1946)President of the United States from 1993 to 2001
Hillary Clinton (born 1947)American politician and diplomat
George Clinton (1739–1812)vice president of the United States from 1805 to 1812
Chelsea Clinton (born 1980)American author and global health advocate
George Clinton (born 1941)American singer, songwriter, bandleader, and music producer
Henry Clinton (1730–1795)British army officer and politician
DeWitt Clinton (1769–1828)American politician
Grace Clinton (born 2003)English footballer

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

Surnames like Clinton

Also a first name

Clinton has been given to 98,005 American babies as a first name since 1880, peaking in 1981. 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.