Last Name CLOUGH

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Meaning	Local: At the clough, from residence thereby. A clough is a breach in the hillside, a ravine between hills. Local: A small valley between hills, a breach; from the past of the Anglo-Saxon participle 'cleofian,' to cleave, divide.

Origin	English, Anglo-Saxon, French, German, Irish

Rank	3,616 (2000 US census)	3,405 (1990 US census)

Count	9,032 (2000 US census)

Race / ethnic distribution

The 2000 US Census claims that

93.81%, or 8473 total occurrences, of those with this family name identified themselves as being white,
2.66%, or 240 total occurrences, as black,
0.38%, or 34 total occurrences, as Asian and Pacific Islander,
0.42%, or 38 total occurrences, as American Indian and Native Alaskan,
1.3%, or 117 total occurrences, as two or more races, and
1.44%, or 130 total occurrences, as Hispanic ethnic origin.

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How many distinct last names exist in the United States of America?

How does one estimate/guess that number? The first source that comes to mind is the result of the latest available census. We know that 2000 year census presents us with a little over 150,000 unique surnames. The least po...

Census 2000: how many distinct surnames are there?

Even after applying various edits and acceptance criteria to the names, there are a sizable number of unique names in the population. Over 6 million last names were identified. Many of these names were either unique (occurred once)...