How common is the surname Clingan?

1,815 people in the United States had the surname Clingan in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 170,108 Americans. It ranked 15,995th of 162,253 surnames.

Who is the most famous person named Clingan?

Donovan Clingan, American basketball player (born 2004).

Where is the surname Clingan most common?

Wikidata records people named Clingan in the United States.

Is the surname Clingan getting more or less common?

More common. 1,766 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,815 in 2010, up 2.8%.

The surname Clingan

An occupational surname, carried by 1,815 people in the United States.

2 syllables Soundex C452

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Clingan is more common than 90.1% of them.

Origin

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.

Clingan 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 1,815 people named Clingan in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 170,108 Americans. That is up 2.8% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,766.

#15,995

rank among US surnames

1,815

people in 2010

0.6

per 100,000 Americans

+2.8%

change since 2000 (was #15,280)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#15,995	Strope	1,815	170,108
#16,004	Portnoy	1,814	170,202

Who is named Clingan

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

94% of people named Clingan identified as white (not Hispanic), 1.8% as two or more races and 1.8% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

White (not Hispanic) 94%
Two or more races 1.8%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.8%
American Indian and Alaska Native 0.9%
Black (not Hispanic) 0.6%
Asian and Pacific Islander 0.4%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Famous Clingans

1 notable person on Wikidata, most written-about first

Donovan Clingan
American basketball player (born 2004)

Spellings and sound-alikes

Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling

Surnames that sound like Clingan

Clingan has the Soundex code C452, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code C452.

Questions

Where does the surname Clingan come from?: 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.
How common is the surname Clingan?: 1,815 people in the United States had the surname Clingan in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 170,108 Americans. It ranked 15,995th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Clingan?: In the 2010 Census, 94% of people named Clingan identified as white (not Hispanic), and 1.8% as two or more races.
Who is the most famous person named Clingan?: Donovan Clingan, American basketball player (born 2004).
Where is the surname Clingan most common?: Wikidata records people named Clingan in the United States.
What type of surname is Clingan?: Clingan is an occupational surname, named after the work an ancestor did.
Is the surname Clingan getting more or less common?: More common. 1,766 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,815 in 2010, up 2.8%.