Cleghorn
surname · Latin script
Meaning: A surname from Scottish Gaelic
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/ˈkɫɛɡhɝn/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Cleghorn is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Pakistan than in any other country.
- CACanada≈1 in 81K(inferred from the name graph)
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 94K
- USUnited States1 in 149K
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.
- Pakistan (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 254 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 20K (inferred from the name graph)
≈4,300 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Switzerland, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
A surname from Scottish Gaelic.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Cleghorn 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PK Pakistan | ≈4,300 est. | ≈1 in 54K | — | Cleghorn | 1 |
| US United States | 2,237 | 1 in 149K | 2.3K | Cleghorn | 254 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈700 est. | ≈1 in 94K | — | Cleghorn | 125 |
| CA Canada | ≈460 est. | ≈1 in 81K | — | Cleghorn | 72 |
| CH Switzerland | ≈410 est. | ≈1 in 20K | — | Cleghorn | 2 |
| CU Cuba | ≈140 est. | ≈1 in 78K | — | Cleghorn | 3 |
| NZ New Zealand | ≈89 est. | ≈1 in 55K | — | Cleghorn | 41 |
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 — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000. 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)
Cleghorn is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, person from Cleghorn, Lanarkshire
as a nameEncyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
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)
- George Cleghornb. 1716GBScottish medical writer
- Robert Cleghornb. 1755GBScottish physician and pharmacologist
- Elizabeth Gaskellb. 1810GBnot in their usual nameBritish author (1810-1865)
- Hugh Cleghornb. 1820INScottish forester (1820-1895)
- Archibald Scott Cleghornb. 1835USHawaiian politician (1835-1910)
- George Cleghornb. 1850INNew Zealand doctor
- Sprague Cleghornb. 1890CACanadian ice hockey player (1890–1956)
- Odie Cleghornb. 1891CACanadian ice hockey player (1891–1956)
- Harold Cleghornb. 1912NZNew Zealand weightlifter (1912-1996)
- John Cleghornb. 1941CACanadian business executive
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).
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 10 sources across 4 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 2.3K | #12,382 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 2.2K | #13,551 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 2K | #14,247 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
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 Cleghorn mean, and where does it come from?
- A surname from Scottish Gaelic. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Cleghorn?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈkɫɛɡhɝn/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Cleghorn have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 4.3 thousand people named Cleghorn in Pakistan, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled cleghorn.
- How common is the name Cleghorn?
- In the United States, the national register counted 2,237 people named Cleghorn in 2010, about 1 in 149 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/cleghornThe 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, “Cleghorn”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.