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    The surname Clayborne

    A surname, carried by 1,905 people in the United States.

    2 syllables Soundex C416

    Clayborne: #15,391 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Clayborne #15,391, 1,905 people Clayborne: #15,391 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Clayborne #15,391, 1,905 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Clayborne is more common than 90.5% of them.

    Origin

    A surname.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 1,905 people named Clayborne in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 162,071 Americans. That is up 10% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,725.

    #15,391
    rank among US surnames
    1,905
    people in 2010
    0.7
    per 100,000 Americans
    +10.4%
    change since 2000 (was #15,563)
    RankSurnamePeople1 in
    #15,386Leet1,906161,986
    #15,391Milliman1,905162,071
    #15,397Ake1,904162,156

    Who is named Clayborne

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

    69% of people named Clayborne identified as Black (not Hispanic), 24% as white (not Hispanic) and 5.3% as two or more races.

    • Black (not Hispanic) 69%
    • White (not Hispanic) 24%
    • Two or more races 5.3%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.9%
    • American Indian and Alaska Native 0.4%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 0.3%

    Compare: most common surnames among Black Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

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    Surnames that sound like Clayborne

    Clayborne has the Soundex code C416, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code C416.

    Questions

    How common is the surname Clayborne?
    1,905 people in the United States had the surname Clayborne in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 162,071 Americans. It ranked 15,391st of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Clayborne?
    In the 2010 Census, 69% of people named Clayborne identified as Black (not Hispanic), and 24% as white (not Hispanic).
    Is the surname Clayborne getting more or less common?
    More common. 1,725 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,905 in 2010, up 10%.