# Clingan (surname)

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

A surname.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Origin | not recorded |
| Type | occupational, named after the work an ancestor did |
| People in the US (2010 Census) | 1,815 |
| US rank (2010) | 15,995 of 162,253 |
| How often | about 1 in every 170,108 people |
| Change since 2000 | +2.8% (1,766 in 2000) |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |

## Etymology

From Celtic (Scottish Gaelic and northern Irish) surname reduced from mac clingan, Anglicized from mac gilla Fhinnéin (“son of the servant of (Saint) Finnian”), also Anglicized as mac Alingen.

## Who carries it

Share of people named Clingan 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) | 94% |
| Black (not Hispanic) | 0.6% |
| Hispanic or Latino (any race) | 1.8% |
| Asian and Pacific Islander | 0.4% |
| American Indian and Alaska Native | 0.9% |
| Two or more races | 1.8% |

## Where

Wikidata records people named Clingan in the United States.

## People named Clingan

- Donovan Clingan, American basketball player (born 2004)

## Similar surnames

Colunga, Cowling, Clinger, Clinkscales, Clingerman, Clinkenbeard, Colling, Clingman, Collins, Clancy, Cullins, Colangelo.

## 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.