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    The surname Clopton

    An English place surname, carried by 2,157 people in the United States.

    2 syllables Soundex C413

    Clopton: #13,976 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Clopton #13,976, 2,157 people Clopton: #13,976 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Clopton #13,976, 2,157 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Clopton is more common than 91.4% of them.

    Origin

    English origin

    From Middle English Clopton, from Old English *clopp (“rock, hill”) + tūn (“enclosure; settlement, town”).

    Clopton is a place surname: taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.

    One of 1,446 English surnames on this site.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 2,157 people named Clopton in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 143,137 Americans. That is up 6.0% since 2000, when the Census counted 2,034.

    #13,976
    rank among US surnames
    2,157
    people in 2010
    0.7
    per 100,000 Americans
    +6%
    change since 2000 (was #13,675)
    RankSurnamePeople1 in
    #13,967Veazey2,159143,004
    #13,974Barkman2,158143,070
    #13,976Sarkar2,157143,137
    #13,981Arauz2,156143,203
    #13,985Chatterjee2,155143,269

    Who is named Clopton

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

    61% of people named Clopton identified as white (not Hispanic), 33% as Black (not Hispanic) and 2.9% as two or more races.

    • White (not Hispanic) 61%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 33%
    • Two or more races 2.9%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.2%
    • American Indian and Alaska Native 0.7%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 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

    • Clapperton

    Surnames that sound like Clopton

    Clopton has the Soundex code C413, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code C413.

    Other English surnames

    All 1,446 English surnames

    Questions

    Where does the surname Clopton come from?
    From Middle English Clopton, from Old English *clopp (“rock, hill”) + tūn (“enclosure; settlement, town”).
    How common is the surname Clopton?
    2,157 people in the United States had the surname Clopton in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 143,137 Americans. It ranked 13,976th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Clopton?
    In the 2010 Census, 61% of people named Clopton identified as white (not Hispanic), and 33% as Black (not Hispanic).
    What type of surname is Clopton?
    Clopton is a place surname, taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.
    Is the surname Clopton getting more or less common?
    More common. 2,034 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 2,157 in 2010, up 6.0%.
    What are other spellings of Clopton?
    Clapperton.