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The surname Clendenin

A surname, carried by 2,315 people in the United States.

3 syllables Soundex C453

Clendenin: #13,203 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Clendenin #13,203, 2,315 people Clendenin: #13,203 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Clendenin #13,203, 2,315 people
Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Clendenin is more common than 91.9% of them.

Origin

A surname.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 2,315 people named Clendenin in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 133,367 Americans. That is up 4.1% since 2000, when the Census counted 2,224.

#13,203
rank among US surnames
2,315
people in 2010
0.8
per 100,000 Americans
+4.1%
change since 2000 (was #12,739)
RankSurnamePeople1 in
#13,195Rizzuto2,316133,310
#13,203Lamphere2,315133,367
#13,210Wigfall2,314133,425

Who is named Clendenin

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

93% of people named Clendenin identified as white (not Hispanic), 2.3% as Black (not Hispanic) and 1.8% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

  • White (not Hispanic) 93%
  • Black (not Hispanic) 2.3%
  • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.8%
  • Two or more races 1.6%
  • American Indian and Alaska Native 0.5%
  • Asian and Pacific Islander 0.4%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Clendenin

Clendenin has the Soundex code C453, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code C453.

Questions

How common is the surname Clendenin?
2,315 people in the United States had the surname Clendenin in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 133,367 Americans. It ranked 13,203rd of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Clendenin?
In the 2010 Census, 93% of people named Clendenin identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.3% as Black (not Hispanic).
Is the surname Clendenin getting more or less common?
More common. 2,224 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 2,315 in 2010, up 4.1%.