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    The surname Clardy

    A surname, carried by 3,713 people in the United States.

    2 syllables Soundex C463

    Clardy: #8,817 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Clardy #8,817, 3,713 people Clardy: #8,817 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Clardy #8,817, 3,713 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Clardy is more common than 94.6% of them.

    Origin

    Reduced form of McLardy.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 3,713 people named Clardy in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 83,153 Americans. That is up 4.2% since 2000, when the Census counted 3,563.

    #8,817
    rank among US surnames
    3,713
    people in 2010
    1.3
    per 100,000 Americans
    +4.2%
    change since 2000 (was #8,514)
    RankSurnamePeople1 in
    #8,812Villela3,71683,085
    #8,813Romans3,71583,108
    #8,814Coblentz3,71483,130
    #8,817Lonergan3,71383,153
    #8,822Molitor3,71283,175

    Who is named Clardy

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

    69% of people named Clardy identified as white (not Hispanic), 25% as Black (not Hispanic) and 2.7% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

    • White (not Hispanic) 69%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 25%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.7%
    • Two or more races 2.3%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 0.5%
    • American Indian and Alaska Native 0.4%

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

    Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling

    Variant spellings

    • Claridy

    Surnames that sound like Clardy

    Clardy has the Soundex code C463, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code C463.

    Questions

    Where does the surname Clardy come from?
    Reduced form of McLardy.
    How common is the surname Clardy?
    3,713 people in the United States had the surname Clardy in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 83,153 Americans. It ranked 8,817th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Clardy?
    In the 2010 Census, 69% of people named Clardy identified as white (not Hispanic), and 25% as Black (not Hispanic).
    Is the surname Clardy getting more or less common?
    More common. 3,563 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 3,713 in 2010, up 4.2%.
    What are other spellings of Clardy?
    Claridy.