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The CLEGG surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 7,723 4244 0.003 29
United States (1880 census) 1,775 3326 0.004 36
Change since 1880 +5948 -918 -0.001 -7
Other Countries
Australia 862 1905 0.005 53
United Kingdom 7,974 772 0.017 174
Top States for CLEGG by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
California 676 4413 0.002 20
Utah 670 403 0.030 300
Ohio 493 2893 0.004 43
Texas 444 4838 0.002 21
North Carolina 409 2716 0.005 51
Top States for CLEGG by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Utah 670 403 0.030 300
Idaho 154 1152 0.012 119
Rhode Island 98 1661 0.009 93
West Virginia 165 1595 0.009 91
Arkansas 210 1747 0.008 79

Notes

'A figure of zero indicates that we don't have data for this name (usually because it's quite uncommon and our stats don't go down that far). It doesn't mean that there's no-one with that name at all!

For less common surnames, the figures get progressively less reliable the fewer holders of that name there are. This data is aggregated from several public lists, and some stats are interpolated from known values. The margin of error is well over 100% at the rarest end of the table!

For less common surnames, the frequency and "per million" values may be 0 even though there are people with that name. That's because they represent less than one in a million of the population, which ends up as 0 after rounding.

It's possible for a surname to gain in rank and/or total while being less common per million people (or vice versa) as there are now more surnames in the USA as a result of immigration. In mathematical terms, the tail has got longer, with a far larger number of less common surnames.

Figures for top states show firstly the states where most people called CLEGG live. This obviously tends to be biased towards the most populous states. The second set of figures show where people called CLEGG represent the biggest proportion of the population. So, in this case, there are more people called CLEGG in California than any other state, but you are more likely to find a CLEGG by picking someone at random in Utah than anywhere else.

Classification and Origin of CLEGG

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

Data for religion and/or language relates to the culture in which the CLEGG surname originated. It does not necessarily have any correlation with the language spoken, or religion practised, by the majority of current American citizens with that name.

Data for ethnic origin relates to the region and country in which the CLEGG surname originated. It does not necessarily have any correlation with the ethnicity of the majority of current American citizens with that name.

Ethnic distribution of CLEGG in the USA

Classification Total Percent
Black/African American 771 9.98
White (Hispanic) 118 1.53
Mixed Race 75 0.97
Asian/Pacific 54 0.7
Native American/Alaskan 21 0.27
White (Caucasian) 6,684 86.55

Ethnic distribution data shows the number and percentage of people with the CLEGG surname who reported their ethnic background as being in these broad categories in the most recent national census.

Meaning of CLEGG in historical publications

CLEGG. "O. Norse, hleggi, a compact mass. There was a Northman with this surname in the Landuamabok." Ferguson.

Lower, Mark A (1860) Patronymica Britannica: a dictionary of the family names of the United Kingdom. London: J.R. Smith. Public Domain.


Similar names to CLEGG

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as CLEGG.

This does not necessarily imply a direct relationship between the names, but may indicate names that could be mistaken for this one when written down or misheard.

Matches are generated automatically by a combination of Soundex, Metaphone and Levenshtein matching.

Potential typos for CLEGG

The following words are slight variants of CLEGG that are likely to be possible typos or misspellings in written material.