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The surname Clever

A surname, carried by 1,497 people in the United States.

2 syllables Soundex C416

Clever: #18,474 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Clever #18,474, 1,497 people Clever: #18,474 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Clever #18,474, 1,497 people
Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Clever is more common than 88.6% of them.

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 1,497 people named Clever in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 206,243 Americans. That is up 0.7% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,487.

#18,474
rank among US surnames
1,497
people in 2010
0.5
per 100,000 Americans
+0.7%
change since 2000 (was #17,475)
RankSurnamePeople1 in
#18,467Sciacca1,498206,105
#18,474Longnecker1,497206,243
#18,478Melnyk1,496206,381

Who is named Clever

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

94% of people named Clever identified as white (not Hispanic), 3.5% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

  • White (not Hispanic) 94%
  • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 3.5%
  • Two or more races 0.9%
  • Black (not Hispanic) 0.7%
  • Asian and Pacific Islander 0.5%
  • American Indian and Alaska Native 0.4%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Clever

Clever 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 Clever?
1,497 people in the United States had the surname Clever in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 206,243 Americans. It ranked 18,474th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Clever?
In the 2010 Census, 94% of people named Clever identified as white (not Hispanic), and 3.5% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
Is the surname Clever getting more or less common?
More common. 1,487 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,497 in 2010, up 0.7%.