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    The surname Clamp

    An occupational surname, carried by 665 people in the United States.

    1 syllable Soundex C451

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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). Clamp is more common than 79% of them.

    Origin

    From clamp, a metonymic occupational surname for someone who worked with this tool.

    Clamp is an occupational surname: named after the work an ancestor did.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 665 people named Clamp in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 464,279 Americans. That is down 2.8% since 2000, when the Census counted 684.

    #34,149
    rank among US surnames
    665
    people in 2010
    0.2
    per 100,000 Americans
    -2.8%
    change since 2000 (was #31,884)

    Who is named Clamp

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

    94% of people named Clamp identified as white (not Hispanic), 2.3% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 1.1% as Asian and Pacific Islander.

    • White (not Hispanic) 94%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.3%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 1.1%
    • Two or more races 1.1%
    The Census suppresses very small shares to protect privacy; Black, Native American are not shown.

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

    Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling

    Surnames that sound like Clamp

    Clamp has the Soundex code C451, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code C451.

    Questions

    Where does the surname Clamp come from?
    From clamp, a metonymic occupational surname for someone who worked with this tool.
    How common is the surname Clamp?
    665 people in the United States had the surname Clamp in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 464,279 Americans. It ranked 34,149th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Clamp?
    In the 2010 Census, 94% of people named Clamp identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.3% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
    What type of surname is Clamp?
    Clamp is an occupational surname, named after the work an ancestor did.
    Is the surname Clamp getting more or less common?
    Less common. 684 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 665 in 2010, down 2.8%.