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The surname Clairmont

A surname, carried by 1,401 people in the United States.

2 syllables Soundex C465

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Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Clairmont is more common than 88.1% of them.

Origin

Metathetic variant of Montclair.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 1,401 people named Clairmont in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 220,375 Americans. That is up 3.1% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,359.

#19,321
rank among US surnames
1,401
people in 2010
0.5
per 100,000 Americans
+3.1%
change since 2000 (was #18,682)

Who is named Clairmont

Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census

71% of people named Clairmont identified as white (not Hispanic), 17% as American Indian and Alaska Native and 5.4% as Black (not Hispanic).

  • White (not Hispanic) 71%
  • American Indian and Alaska Native 17%
  • Black (not Hispanic) 5.4%
  • Two or more races 4.4%
  • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.8%
  • Asian and Pacific Islander 0.7%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Clairmont

Clairmont has the Soundex code C465, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code C465.

Questions

Where does the surname Clairmont come from?
Metathetic variant of Montclair.
How common is the surname Clairmont?
1,401 people in the United States had the surname Clairmont in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 220,375 Americans. It ranked 19,321st of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Clairmont?
In the 2010 Census, 71% of people named Clairmont identified as white (not Hispanic), and 17% as American Indian and Alaska Native.
Is the surname Clairmont getting more or less common?
More common. 1,359 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,401 in 2010, up 3.1%.