Clevenger
surname · Latin script
Meaning: A surname originating as an occupation
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Clevenger is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 27K(measured from records)
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 45K
- AXÅland Islands≈1 in 5.9K
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)
- Sources
- 359 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 5.9K (inferred from the name graph)
≈40,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Åland Islands, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
A surname originating as an occupation.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Clevenger 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 | — | ≈40,000 est. | ≈1 in 35K | — | Clevenger | 2 |
| US United States | — | 12,428 | 1 in 27K | 12K | Clevenger | 359 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈1,500 est. | ≈1 in 45K | — | Clevenger | 53 |
| ID Indonesia | — | ≈1,300 est. | ≈1 in 212K | — | Clevenger | 3 |
| EG Egypt | — | ≈1,100 est. | ≈1 in 92K | — | Clevenger | 4 |
| TN Tunisia | — | ≈410 est. | ≈1 in 29K | — | Clevenger | 3 |
| SG Singapore | — | ≈330 est. | ≈1 in 19K | — | Clevenger | 2 |
| IS Iceland | — | ≈10 est. | ≈1 in 34K | — | Clevenger | 2 |
| AX Åland Islands | #528 | ≈4 est. | ≈1 in 5.9K | — | Clevenger | 2 |
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. 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Shobal Vail Clevengerb. 1812USAmerican artist (1812-1843)
- Cliff Clevengerb. 1885USAmerican politician
- Helen Clevengerb. 1917USAmerican murder victim (1917–1936)
- Raymond F. Clevengerb. 1926USAmerican politician (1926-2016)
- Tex Clevengerb. 1932USAmerican baseball player (1932–2019)
- Raymond C. Clevengerb. 1937USUnited States federal judge
- Dale Clevengerb. 1940USAmerican musician (1940–2022)
- Craig Clevengerb. 1964USAmerican author of contemporary fiction
- Steve Clevengerb. 1986USAmerican baseball player
- Erica Clevengerb. 1994USAmerican cyclist
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 10 sources across 5 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 12K | #2,889 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 12K | #2,725 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 12K | #3,007 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- 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 Clevenger mean, and where does it come from?
- A surname originating as an occupation. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- In which country does Clevenger have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 40 thousand people named Clevenger in China, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled clevenger.
- How common is the name Clevenger?
- In the United States, the national register counted 12,428 people named Clevenger in 2010, about 1 in 27 thousand residents.
- How common is Clevenger compared with other names?
- In Åland Islands, Clevenger is the 528th most common surname of 1,503 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/clevengerThe 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, “Clevenger” — the 528th most common surname in Åland Islands. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.