Clough

8,881 people in the United States were counted with the surname Clough in the 2020 census, making it the 3,885th most common in the country. That is about one person in 33,700.

By the numbers

People: 8,881
Rank: 3,885th
How common: 1 in 33,700
Per 100,000: 3.0

Where the name comes from

Origin a common noun

As an English surname, from the noun clough.

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 87.7%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 3.9%
Black, not Hispanic 3.6%
Hispanic or Latino 3.6%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.9%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.4%

Notable people called Clough

Brian Clough (1935–2004)English football player and manager
Nigel Clough (born 1966)English association football player and manager
Arthur Hugh Clough (1819–1861)English poet
Zach Clough (born 1995)English association football player

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

Surnames like Clough

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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.