# Cleghorn (surname)

Source: https://namelineage.com/surname/cleghorn/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. Counts from the US Census Bureau; origin and etymology from Wiktionary; bearers from Wikidata. Data updated 2026-11-11.

A surname from Scottish Gaelic.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Origin | Scottish Gaelic |
| Type | place, taken from where an ancestor lived or came from |
| People in the US (2010 Census) | 2,237 |
| US rank (2010) | 13,551 of 162,253 |
| How often | about 1 in every 138,018 people |
| Change since 2000 | -2.8% (2,301 in 2000) |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Variant spellings | Claghorn, Gleghorn |

## Etymology

Habitational surname from Scottish Gaelic.

## Who carries it

Share of people named Cleghorn in the 2010 US Census by the Census's own race and ethnicity groups. The Census suppresses a share when the count behind it is small.

| Group | Share |
|---|---|
| White (not Hispanic) | 87% |
| Black (not Hispanic) | 7.3% |
| Hispanic or Latino (any race) | 2.4% |
| Asian and Pacific Islander | 0.3% |
| American Indian and Alaska Native | 0.4% |
| Two or more races | 2.1% |

## Where

Wikidata records people named Cleghorn in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.

## People named Cleghorn

- Elizabeth Gaskell, British author (1810-1865)

## Similar surnames

Clouser, Colegrove, Chalker, Colgrove, Caligiuri, Colcord.

## How to read these numbers

A Census count is people alive and counted in 2010, not births, and names occurring fewer than 100 times are not published at all. Ethnicity shares are the Census's own categories.