How common is the surname Clough?

9,339 people in the United States had the surname Clough in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 33,060 Americans. It ranked 3,789th of 162,253 surnames.

How do you pronounce Clough?

Clough is /klʌf/, one syllable.

Is the surname Clough getting more or less common?

More common. 9,032 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 9,339 in 2010, up 3.4%.

The surname Clough

A Latin surname, carried by 9,339 people in the United States.

Pronounced /klʌf/ 1 syllable Soundex C420

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Clough is more common than 97.7% of them.

Origin

Latin origin

* As an English surname, from the noun clough. * As a Welsh surname, from cloff (“lame”), from Late Latin cloppus, perhaps ultimately imitative of a limping person. * As an Irish place name, from Irish an Chloch, "the stone".

One of 91 Latin surnames on this site.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 9,339 people named Clough in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 33,060 Americans. That is up 3.4% since 2000, when the Census counted 9,032.

#3,789

rank among US surnames

9,339

people in 2010

3.2

per 100,000 Americans

+3.4%

change since 2000 (was #3,616)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#3,780	Abarca	9,363	32,975
#3,782	Woodworth	9,361	32,982
#3,784	Thigpen	9,359	32,989
#3,785	André	9,358	32,993
#3,786	McGrew	9,354	33,007
#3,787	Scholl	9,351	33,017
#3,788	Tarver	9,341	33,053

Who is named Clough

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

92% of people named Clough identified as white (not Hispanic), 3.4% as Black (not Hispanic) and 2.1% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

White (not Hispanic) 92%
Black (not Hispanic) 3.4%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.1%
Two or more races 1.5%
Asian and Pacific Islander 0.9%
American Indian and Alaska Native 0.3%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Clough

Clough has the Soundex code C420, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code C420.

Other Latin surnames

All 91 Latin surnames

Questions

Where does the surname Clough come from?: * As an English surname, from the noun clough. * As a Welsh surname, from cloff (“lame”), from Late Latin cloppus, perhaps ultimately imitative of a limping person. * As an Irish place name, from Irish an Chloch, "the stone".
How common is the surname Clough?: 9,339 people in the United States had the surname Clough in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 33,060 Americans. It ranked 3,789th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Clough?: In the 2010 Census, 92% of people named Clough identified as white (not Hispanic), and 3.4% as Black (not Hispanic).
How do you pronounce Clough?: Clough is /klʌf/, one syllable.
Is the surname Clough getting more or less common?: More common. 9,032 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 9,339 in 2010, up 3.4%.