The CLELAND surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	4,063	7548	0.002	15
United States (1880 census)	1,259	4481	0.003	25
Change since 1880	+2804	-3067	-0.001	-10
Other Countries
Australia	532	3035	0.003	33
United Kingdom	1,380	4021	0.003	30

Top States for CLELAND by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
California	480	5715	0.001	14
Michigan	363	3161	0.004	37
Ohio	356	3811	0.003	31
Florida	241	7724	0.002	15
Pennsylvania	187	7811	0.002	15
Top States for CLELAND by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
South Dakota	36	3382	0.005	48
Vermont	28	3380	0.005	46
Michigan	363	3161	0.004	37
Ohio	356	3811	0.003	31
South Carolina	116	4118	0.003	29

Notes

Total is the total number of people with that surname.
Rank is the position in the list of names ordered by total (eg, a rank of 1 means that it's the most common name, and a rank of 10 means it's the tenth most common, etc).
Frequency is the percentage of people with that surname.
Per million people is the number of people with that surname per million of the population.

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

Classification and Origin of CLELAND

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: Scotland

Language of origin: Gaelic

Ethnic origin: Celtic

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: Location or Geographical Feature

Data for religion and/or language relates to the culture in which the CLELAND 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 CLELAND 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 CLELAND in the USA

Classification	Total	Percent
White (Hispanic)	77	1.9
Native American/Alaskan	51	1.26
Mixed Race	40	0.98
Black/African American	32	0.79
Asian/Pacific	22	0.54
White (Caucasian)	3,841	94.54

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

Similar names to CLELAND

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as CLELAND.

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.