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    The surname Clouston

    A Norse place surname, carried by 334 people in the United States.

    2 syllables Soundex C423

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    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Clouston is more common than 62.8% of them.

    Origin

    Norse origin

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

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

    One of 126 Norse surnames on this site.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 334 people named Clouston in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 924,388 Americans. That is down 2.3% since 2000, when the Census counted 342.

    #60,347
    rank among US surnames
    334
    people in 2010
    0.1
    per 100,000 Americans
    -2.3%
    change since 2000 (was #55,971)

    Who is named Clouston

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

    92% of people named Clouston identified as white (not Hispanic), 4.8% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 1.8% as Black (not Hispanic).

    • White (not Hispanic) 92%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 4.8%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 1.8%
    The Census suppresses very small shares to protect privacy; Asian & Pacific Islander, Multiracial are not shown.

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

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    Surnames that sound like Clouston

    Clouston has the Soundex code C423, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code C423.

    Other Norse surnames

    All 126 Norse surnames

    Questions

    Where does the surname Clouston come from?
    Habitational surname from a place in the Orkney islands, from Old Norse Klóstathr.
    How common is the surname Clouston?
    334 people in the United States had the surname Clouston in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 924,388 Americans. It ranked 60,347th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Clouston?
    In the 2010 Census, 92% of people named Clouston identified as white (not Hispanic), and 4.8% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
    What type of surname is Clouston?
    Clouston is a place surname, taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.
    Is the surname Clouston getting more or less common?
    Less common. 342 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 334 in 2010, down 2.3%.