How common is the surname Cloninger?

2,479 people in the United States had the surname Cloninger in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 124,544 Americans. It ranked 12,504th of 162,253 surnames.

What ethnicity is the surname Cloninger?

In the 2010 Census, 96% of people named Cloninger identified as white (not Hispanic), and 1.8% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

Who is the most famous person named Cloninger?

C. Robert Cloninger, American psychiatrist.

Where is the surname Cloninger most common?

Wikidata records people named Cloninger in the United States.

Is the surname Cloninger getting more or less common?

Less common. 2,487 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 2,479 in 2010, down 0.3%.

The surname Cloninger

A surname, carried by 2,479 people in the United States.

3 syllables Soundex C455

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Cloninger is more common than 92.3% of them.

Origin

A surname.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 2,479 people named Cloninger in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 124,544 Americans. That is about the same as in 2000, when the Census counted 2,487.

#12,504

rank among US surnames

2,479

people in 2010

0.8

per 100,000 Americans

-0.3%

change since 2000 (was #11,583)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#12,496	Justiniano	2,481	124,444
#12,500	Howey	2,480	124,494
#12,504	Gum	2,479	124,544
#12,510	Shain	2,478	124,595

Who is named Cloninger

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

96% of people named Cloninger identified as white (not Hispanic), 1.8% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 1.5% as two or more races.

White (not Hispanic) 96%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.8%
Two or more races 1.5%
American Indian and Alaska Native 0.4%

The Census suppresses very small shares to protect privacy; Black, Asian & Pacific Islander are not shown.

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Famous Cloningers

1 notable person on Wikidata, most written-about first

C. Robert Cloninger
American psychiatrist, born 1944

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Cloninger

Cloonan

Cloninger has the Soundex code C455, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code C455.

Questions

How common is the surname Cloninger?: 2,479 people in the United States had the surname Cloninger in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 124,544 Americans. It ranked 12,504th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Cloninger?: In the 2010 Census, 96% of people named Cloninger identified as white (not Hispanic), and 1.8% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
Who is the most famous person named Cloninger?: C. Robert Cloninger, American psychiatrist.
Where is the surname Cloninger most common?: Wikidata records people named Cloninger in the United States.
Is the surname Cloninger getting more or less common?: Less common. 2,487 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 2,479 in 2010, down 0.3%.