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    The surname Clore

    A surname, carried by 1,769 people in the United States.

    1 syllable Soundex C460

    Clore: #16,302 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Clore #16,302, 1,769 people Clore: #16,302 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Clore #16,302, 1,769 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Clore is more common than 90% of them.

    Origin

    A surname.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 1,769 people named Clore in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 174,531 Americans. That is up 5.0% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,685.

    #16,302
    rank among US surnames
    1,769
    people in 2010
    0.6
    per 100,000 Americans
    +5%
    change since 2000 (was #15,854)
    RankSurnamePeople1 in
    #16,295Swayne1,770174,433
    #16,302Merten1,769174,531
    #16,305Renderos1,768174,630

    Who is named Clore

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

    89% of people named Clore identified as white (not Hispanic), 4.6% as Black (not Hispanic) and 2.7% as two or more races.

    • White (not Hispanic) 89%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 4.6%
    • Two or more races 2.7%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.5%
    • American Indian and Alaska Native 0.7%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 0.6%

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

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    Surnames that sound like Clore

    Clore has the Soundex code C460, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code C460.

    Questions

    How common is the surname Clore?
    1,769 people in the United States had the surname Clore in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 174,531 Americans. It ranked 16,302nd of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Clore?
    In the 2010 Census, 89% of people named Clore identified as white (not Hispanic), and 4.6% as Black (not Hispanic).
    Is the surname Clore getting more or less common?
    More common. 1,685 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,769 in 2010, up 5.0%.