How common is the surname Clevenger?

12,428 people in the United States had the surname Clevenger in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 24,843 Americans. It ranked 2,889th of 162,253 surnames.

What ethnicity is the surname Clevenger?

In the 2010 Census, 95% of people named Clevenger identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.0% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

Is the surname Clevenger getting more or less common?

More common. 12,146 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 12,428 in 2010, up 2.3%.

The surname Clevenger

An occupational surname, carried by 12,428 people in the United States.

3 syllables Soundex C415

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Clevenger is more common than 98.2% of them.

Origin

From claviger, an occupational surname for a keyholder.

Clevenger 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 12,428 people named Clevenger in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 24,843 Americans. That is up 2.3% since 2000, when the Census counted 12,146.

#2,889

rank among US surnames

12,428

people in 2010

4.2

per 100,000 Americans

+2.3%

change since 2000 (was #2,725)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#2,880	McCurdy	12,463	24,773
#2,881	Bertrand	12,461	24,777
#2,882	Spann	12,457	24,785
#2,883	Cooney	12,455	24,789
#2,885	Berrios	12,451	24,797
#2,886	Zelaya	12,448	24,803
#2,887	Jaeger	12,436	24,827

Who is named Clevenger

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

95% of people named Clevenger identified as white (not Hispanic), 2.0% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 1.4% as two or more races.

White (not Hispanic) 95%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.0%
Two or more races 1.4%
American Indian and Alaska Native 0.6%
Asian and Pacific Islander 0.6%
Black (not Hispanic) 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

Cleavinger

Surnames that sound like Clevenger

Clevinger

Clevenger has the Soundex code C415, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code C415.

Questions

Where does the surname Clevenger come from?: From claviger, an occupational surname for a keyholder.
How common is the surname Clevenger?: 12,428 people in the United States had the surname Clevenger in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 24,843 Americans. It ranked 2,889th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Clevenger?: In the 2010 Census, 95% of people named Clevenger identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.0% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
What type of surname is Clevenger?: Clevenger is an occupational surname, named after the work an ancestor did.
Is the surname Clevenger getting more or less common?: More common. 12,146 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 12,428 in 2010, up 2.3%.
What are other spellings of Clevenger?: Cleavinger.