# Clouston (surname)

Source: https://namelineage.com/surname/clouston/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. Counts from the US Census Bureau; origin and etymology from Wiktionary; bearers from Wikidata. Data updated 2026-11-11.

A habitational surname from Old Norse.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Origin | Norse |
| Type | place, taken from where an ancestor lived or came from |
| People in the US (2010 Census) | 334 |
| US rank (2010) | 60,347 of 162,253 |
| How often | about 1 in every 924,388 people |
| Change since 2000 | -2.3% (342 in 2000) |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |

## Etymology

Habitational surname from a place in the Orkney islands, from Old Norse Klóstathr.

## Who carries it

Share of people named Clouston in the 2010 US Census by the Census's own race and ethnicity groups. The Census suppresses a share when the count behind it is small.

| Group | Share |
|---|---|
| White (not Hispanic) | 92% |
| Black (not Hispanic) | 1.8% |
| Hispanic or Latino (any race) | 4.8% |
| American Indian and Alaska Native | 0.0% |

## Similar surnames

Colston, Claxton, Calzada, Celestine, Calixto, Celestin, Colquitt, Chilcote, Calixte, Celestino, Celeste, Claggett.

## How to read these numbers

A Census count is people alive and counted in 2010, not births, and names occurring fewer than 100 times are not published at all. Ethnicity shares are the Census's own categories.