Clothier
surname · Latin script
Meaning: from Old English clāþ ‘cloth’, a maker or seller of cloth; first attested Robert le Clother 1286
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/kloʊðiəɹ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Clothier is a surname written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in the United States.
- AUAustralia
- GBUnited Kingdom
- ESSpain
Where the name is found, darker where our sources hold more of it. No national register counts its bearers anywhere we hold data, so the map carries no figures. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
from Old English clāþ ‘cloth’, a maker or seller of cloth; first attested Robert le Clother 1286
Sources 1
- A Dictionary of English Surnames
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Recorded in:
No national register we accept counts this name’s bearers, so the page lists where it is found and publishes no figure.
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)
Clothier is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, for a maker or seller of cloth and clothes, from ME cloth (OE clad) + the agent suffix -(i)er. Clyve see Clive
as a nameThe Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles
In English, A person who makes or sells cloth or clothing.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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)
- Hannah Clothier Hullb. 1872USAmerican clubwoman, feminist and pacifist
- Robert Clothierb. 1877AUAustralian politician (1877-1964)
- William Clothierb. 1881USUS tennis player (1881-1962)
- Robert Clarkson Clothierb. 1885USAmerican academic administrator (1885–1970)
- William H. Clothierb. 1903USAmerican cinematographer (1903-1996)
- Cecil Clothierb. 1919GBEnglish lawyer
- Robert Clothierb. 1921CACanadian actor (1921-1999)
- Richard Clothierb. 1966GBEnglish actor
- Emma Clothierb. 2001USAmerican volleyball player
- Brent ClothierNZsoil scientist in New Zealand
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 14 sources across 8 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 1.6K | #17,851 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 1.5K | #17,253 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 1.5K | #18,249 |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 9 | #42,861 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 8 | #72,019 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 3 | #63,966 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 2 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 2 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 2 | #318,659 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 2 | #318,717 |
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 1 | #195,612 |
| GB United Kingdom | A Dictionary of Surnames (Hanks & Hodges, 1988) | — | — | — |
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 Clothier mean, and where does it come from?
- from Old English clāþ ‘cloth’, a maker or seller of cloth; first attested Robert le Clother 1286 Recorded by A Dictionary of English Surnames.
- How do you pronounce Clothier?
- A machine transcription gives /kloʊðiəɹ/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Clothier have the most bearers?
- Clothier is most frequently recorded in the United States.
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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, “Clothier”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.