Last name: CLINTON
Welcome at Geneanet!
With Geneanet, find your ancestors from home, create your family tree for free, and explore and share your family history. Genealogy has never been easier, thanks to our database of 8 billion individuals, and our community of enthusiasts.
All you have to know about the last name CLINTON
Last name frequency
CLINTON : This last name is indexed 110,599 times on Geneanet!Origin of last name
CLINTON : 1: Irish (Louth Westmeath) and Scottish: shortened form of McClinton.2: English: habitational name either from Glympton in Oxfordshire named as ‘settlement (Old English tūn) on the Glym river’ a Celtic river name meaning ‘bright stream’ or from Glinton in Northamptonshire early recorded as Clinton (named with an unrecorded Old English element akin to Middle Low German glinde ‘enclosure fence’ + Old English tūn). The surname was taken to Ireland in or before the 16th century.
Learn moreVariants of last name
The spelling of names may have changed over the centuries. Knowing these names variants will help you build your family tree.
Search a name
Discover your ancestors and build your family tree step by step through billions of data included in our members' family trees and through civil records.
Most popular first names
- Henry (16,280)
- George (10,923)
- John (6,086)
- James (4,828)
- Thomas (3,671)
- William (3,566)
- Charles (2,755)
- Mary (2,164)
- Edward (2,003)
- Elizabeth (1,761)
- Margaret (1,402)
- Catherine (1,096)
- Osbert (1,040)
- Geoffrey (1,035)
- Ann (882)
- Robert (861)
- Mr. (735)
- Joan (690)
- Anne (677)
- Bridget (646)
- Bill (629)
- Joseph (624)
- Francis (565)
- Frances (535)
- Samuel (524)
- Patrick (518)
- Alice (491)
- Sarah (470)
- Richard (468)
- Ida (458)
- Lesceline (451)
- Michael (446)
- Jane (440)
- Lasceline (425)
- Clinton (415)
- Peter (413)
- Arthur (399)
- Eliza (306)
- Eleanor (294)
- Ashley (293)
- Henri (291)
- Katherine (270)
- David (264)
- Mrs. (256)
- Harry (255)
- Lawrence (255)
- Maria (254)
- Roger (246)
- Alionore (241)
- Ellen (232)
- Isaac (230)
- Susan (229)
- Rose (214)
- Theophilus (198)
- Alexander (197)
- Arabella (188)
- Isabel (187)
- Frank (186)
- Larry (185)
- Geoffroy (172)
Most indexed places
- New (4,369)
- England (1,594)
- Missouri (1,427)
- New York (1,336)
- Maxstoke (1,294)
- Coleshill (1,229)
- Scrivelsby (1,176)
- America (1,135)
- Amington (1,065)
- Ireland (1,053)
- Dublin (845)
- Tattershall (784)
- Warwickshire (783)
- Philadelphia (777)
- Fort (720)
- London (688)
- London, Middlesex (656)
- Folkestone (649)
- Lincolnshire (644)
- Washington (644)
- Albany (615)
- Louth (589)
- Virginia (582)
- Charleston (446)
- New-York (446)
- Staffordshire (446)
- Sempringham (435)
- New York City (432)
- Leitrim (423)
- Stafford (404)
- West (395)
- Kingston (386)
- Tattershall Castle (385)
- North (364)
- Buffalo (362)
- Clinton (361)
- South (333)
- Richmond (300)
- Sir (298)
- Boston (295)
- Kenilworth Castle (294)
- Stourton (264)
- Newport (259)
- Amington and Stonydelph (249)
- Whiston (241)
- Kinlet (240)
- Saratoga (238)
- New Haven, New Haven (231)
- Poughkeepsie (222)
- Paris (214)
- Woburn Abbey (212)
- Ulster County (208)
- Hernhill (206)
- Westmeath (206)
- Maxstoke Castle (205)
- Monaghan (204)
- Warwick (202)
- Kenilworth (193)
- Yorktown (192)
- Canada (190)
Most indexed countries
- United States (47,549)
- United Kingdom (32,197)
- Ireland (10,697)
- Unknown country (2,375)
- France (2,211)
- New Zealand (1,331)
- Canada (1,123)
- Australia (1,096)
- Netherlands (360)
- Germany (135)
- Italy (135)
- Colombia (105)
- Switzerland (84)
- Gibraltar (79)
- Belgium (71)
- Spain (60)
- India (51)
- China (47)
Available collections for this name
- Family Trees
(36,547) - Books
(34,847) - Archives
(21,600) - Newspapers
(15,278) - Magazines
(1,492) - Other
(497) - Obituaries
(255) - Coats of Arms
(37) - Cemeteries
(28) - Memorials
(18)