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Clinton

Pronounced /ˈklɪn.tn̩/

Rank in 2024
#1,945
Born in 2024
81
Peak year
1981 · #124
Origin
Not recorded

1880 to 2024

Uncommon
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Its story in numbers

  • In 2024, 81 boys were named Clinton, about 1 in every 21,177.
  • It peaked in 1981 with 2,206 babies, ranked #124.
  • It appears in the very first year of records, 1880.
  • 97,473 boys have been named Clinton since 1880.

Who else has this name

Babies named Clinton per 1,000 born in each generation, on one shared scale.

  1. 0.8
    Greatest
  2. 0.6
    Silent
  3. 0.5
    Boomers
  4. 0.9
    Gen X
  5. 0.7
    Millennials
  6. 0.1
    Gen Z
  7. <0.1
    Gen Alpha

Greatest: 13,226 babies, 0.79 per 1,000. Silent: 12,446 babies, 0.60 per 1,000. Boomers: 17,851 babies, 0.48 per 1,000. Gen X: 23,770 babies, 0.87 per 1,000. Millennials: 22,297 babies, 0.73 per 1,000. Gen Z: 4,235 babies, 0.13 per 1,000. Gen Alpha: 1,833 babies, 0.08 per 1,000.

Meaning and origin

(English habitational surname): A habitational surname, derived from places named Glinton ("town on a hill") or Glympton ("settlement on the River Glyme"), from Old English [Term?] + tun (“enclosure, homestead, town”), equivalent to the modern -ton. (given name): Derived from the surnames. (DeWitt County): Named after DeWitt Clinton.

  • A male given name transferred from the surname, of 19th century and later usage.
Origin
Not recorded
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From Wiktionary’s entry for Clinton, CC BY-SA 4.0.