Last Name CLELAND

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Meaning The son of Cleland, a Scotch surname.
Local: From the lands of Cleland in Lanarkshire. James Cleland of that ilk was the associate of Wallace, and received from Robert Bruce several lands in the barony of Calder. He was the ancestor of William Cleland of that ilk, who by Jean his wife, daughter of William Lord Somerville, was progenitor of the Clelands of Cleland, Faskine, Monkland, and Cartness. The family arms are derived from the office they held of hereditary foresters to the Earls of Douglass.
Origin Scottish, Irish

Rank 7,548 (2000 US census) 9,725 (1990 US census)
Count 4,063 (2000 US census)

Race / ethnic distribution

The 2000 US Census claims that
  • 94.54%, or 3841 total occurrences, of those with this family name identified themselves as being white,
  • 0.79%, or 32 total occurrences, as black,
  • 0.54%, or 22 total occurrences, as Asian and Pacific Islander,
  • 1.26%, or 51 total occurrences, as American Indian and Native Alaskan,
  • 0.98%, or 40 total occurrences, as two or more races, and
  • 1.9%, or 77 total occurrences, as Hispanic ethnic origin.


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