Clanton Surname

47,889th
Most Common
surname in the World

Approximately 10,787 people bear this surname

Most prevalent in:
United States
Highest density in:
Marshall Islands

Clanton Surname

The meaning of this surname is not listed.

Clanton Surname Distribution Map

PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
United States10,7031:33,8654,229
Marshall Islands451:1,152284
England81:6,964,757184,742
Liberia61:734,75629,369
Australia41:6,748,925181,100
France31:22,140,907385,998
Canada21:18,422,796409,488
Papua New Guinea21:4,076,858165,791
Philippines21:50,619,112341,003
Romania11:20,077,87089,414
Afghanistan11:32,153,18360,828
Costa Rica11:4,780,06913,345
Trinidad and Tobago11:1,363,97522,013
Thailand11:70,638,3451,175,915
Spain11:46,752,036156,870
Saudi Arabia11:30,855,81763,028
Italy11:61,156,688199,583
Norway11:5,142,286129,201
New Zealand11:4,528,32355,372
Georgia11:3,745,54547,852
Kenya11:46,179,900103,372
PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
Ireland11:4,429,86640,727
PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
England291:840,53036,623
PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
United States1,4501:34,6344,130

Clanton (248) may also be a first name.

Clanton Last Name Facts

Where Does The Last Name Clanton Come From? nationality or country of origin

Clanton is more frequently found in The United States than any other country/territory. It may also appear in the variant forms:. Click here to see other potential spellings of this last name.

How Common Is The Last Name Clanton? popularity and diffusion

This last name is the 47,889th most commonly held last name on earth, borne by approximately 1 in 675,586 people. The last name Clanton is mostly found in The Americas, where 92 percent of Clanton live; 92 percent live in North America and 92 percent live in Anglo-North America. Clanton is also the 566,287th most widely held first name throughout the world, held by 248 people.

This surname is most widely held in The United States, where it is borne by 10,703 people, or 1 in 33,865. In The United States Clanton is mostly found in: Texas, where 12 percent reside, Georgia, where 9 percent reside and Alabama, where 7 percent reside. Not including The United States this surname occurs in 20 countries. It is also found in The Marshall Islands, where 0 percent reside and England, where 0 percent reside.

Clanton Family Population Trend historical fluctuation

The prevalency of Clanton has changed over time. In The United States the number of people carrying the Clanton surname grew 738 percent between 1880 and 2014 and in England it contracted 72 percent between 1881 and 2014.

Clanton Last Name Statistics demography

The religious devotion of those carrying the last name is chiefly Catholic (100%) in Ireland.

In The United States those bearing the Clanton last name are 18.65% more likely to be registered with the Republican Party than The US average, with 65.42% registered to vote for the political party.

Clanton earn somewhat less than the average income. In United States they earn 7.56% less than the national average, earning $39,887 USD per year.

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Clanton Reference & Research

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Footnotes

  • Surnames are taken as the first part of an person's inherited family name, caste, clan name or in some cases patronymic
  • Name distribution statistics are generated from a global database of over 4 billion people - more information
  • Heatmap: Dark red means there is a higher occurrence of the name, transitioning to light yellow signifies a progressively lower occurrence. Clicking on selected countries will show mapping at a regional level
  • Rank: Name are ranked by incidence using the ordinal ranking method; the name that occurs the most is assigned a rank of 1; name that occur less frequently receive an incremented rank; if two or more name occur the same number of times they are assigned the same rank and successive rank is incremented by the total preceeding names
  • Ethnic group cannot necessarily be determined by geographic occurrence
  • Similar: Names listed in the "Similar" section are phonetically similar and may not have any relation to Clanton
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