Clinton
loc · Latin script
Meaning: Person from Clinton or Glympton, Northamptonshire and Oxfordshire, or from St Clement, Cornwall
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Clinton is a name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 6.1K(measured from records)
- CACanada≈1 in 7.1K
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 7.3K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- China (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 503 (measured from records)
- 1 in 2.1K (inferred from the name graph)
≈240,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Guyana
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
- Clintonor(measured from records)
- StClement(measured from records)
Person from Clinton or Glympton, Northamptonshire and Oxfordshire, or from St Clement, Cornwall.
Sources 1
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Clinton counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CN China | ≈240,000 est. | ≈1 in 5.7K | — | Clinton | 22 |
| US United States | 54,834 | 1 in 6.1K | 55K | Clinton | 503 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈9,000 est. | ≈1 in 7.3K | 3 | Clinton | 186 |
| AU Australia | ≈7,200 est. | ≈1 in 3.5K | 76 | Clinton | 187 |
| CA Canada | ≈5,300 est. | ≈1 in 7.1K | 3 | Clinton | 185 |
| GR Greece | ≈2,200 est. | ≈1 in 4.9K | — | Clinton | 8 |
| NZ New Zealand | ≈1,500 est. | ≈1 in 3.4K | 10 | Clinton | 93 |
| GY Guyana | 351 | 1 in 2.1K | 351 | — | 5 |
| KY Cayman Islands | ≈19 est. | ≈1 in 3.3K | — | Clinton | 6 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Alberta Open Government — Frequency and Ranking of Baby Names by Year and Gender; NRS — Baby names Scotland full list (1974–present); NSW BDM — Popular baby names (1952–present); Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025; DIA — Baby name popularity (1900–present). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Clinton is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Irish, From a surname meaning ‘settlement’ or ‘a summit’.
as a nameIrish first names
In English, from Glinton, Northamptonshire; first attested William de Clintona c1125 StCh
as a nameA Dictionary of English Surnames
In English, in Oxon., named as ‘settlement on the river Glyme', or from Glinton in Northants, recorded in 1060 as Clinton (from an unrecorded OE element akin to MLG glinde en¬ closure, fence + OE tiin enclosure, settlement). Clergeau see Clark Clerihew Scots (chiefly Aberdeen): of uncertain origin, not recorded before the 17th cent.
as a nameThe Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles
In English, Bill, US president; Hillary Rodham,
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
In English, US first lady
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Carrie Chapman Cattb. 1859USnot in their usual nameAmerican social reformer, suffragist (1859-1947)
- Clinton Joseph Davissonb. 1881USAmerican physicist (1881-1958)
- Clint Eastwoodb. 1930USnot in their usual nameAmerican actor and film director (born 1930)
- Richard Dawkinsb. 1941GBnot in their usual nameEnglish ethologist, evolutionary biologist and author (born 1941)
- George Clintonb. 1941USAmerican singer, songwriter, bandleader, and music producer
- Bill Clintonb. 1946USPresident of the United States from 1993 to 2001 (born 1946)
- Hillary Clintonb. 1947USAmerican politician and diplomat (born 1947)
- Clint Mansellb. 1963GBnot in their usual nameBritish composer and singer
- Chelsea Clintonb. 1980USAmerican author and global health advocate
- Clint Dempseyb. 1983USnot in their usual nameAmerican soccer player
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 83 sources across 45 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 55K | #843 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 16K | #2,242 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 16K | #2,118 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 16K | #2,274 |
| GY Guyana | Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025 | 2025 | 351 | #278 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 95 | #843 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 94 | — |
| AU Australia | NSW BDM — Popular baby names (1952–present) | 1984 | 76 | #93 |
| AU Australia | QLD BDM — Top 100 Baby Names Queensland (1960–present) | 1989 | 41 | — |
| NZ New Zealand | DIA — Baby name popularity (1900–present) | 1996 | 10 | — |
| CA Canada | Statistics Canada — First names at birth by sex at birth (Table 17-10-0147-01) | 2024 | 5 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1992 | 5 | — |
Reference works 6
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Clinton mean, and where does it come from?
- Person from Clinton or Glympton, Northamptonshire and Oxfordshire, or from St Clement, Cornwall. Recorded by Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history].
- How common is the name Clinton?
- In the United States, the national register counted 54,834 people named Clinton in 2020, about 1 in 6.1 thousand residents.
- In which country does Clinton have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 244 thousand people named Clinton in China, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled clinton.
- Where is Clinton most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Clinton is densest in Guyana — about 1 in 2.1 thousand people — even though China holds more of our records for it.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/clintonThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Clinton”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.