Last Name CLERK

Summary/Contribute


Meaning The clerk, i.e. the clergy-man, a clerk in holy orders. The surname is now almost universally Clark and Clarke.
A clergyman. The family are descended from Alanus Clerk, living in 1349. The family estate of Pennycuick is held by a singular tenure, the proprietor being bound to sit upon a large rock called the Buckstane, and wind three blasts of a horn, when the king shllmoa ce to hunt upon the Borough Muir, near Edinburgh. Hence the crest, and the motto: " Free for a blast."
Origin English, Scottish, Irish, Belgian

Rank 29,447 (2000 US census) 16,999 (1990 US census)
Count 756 (2000 US census)

Race / ethnic distribution

The 2000 US Census claims that
  • 32.94%, or 249 total occurrences, of those with this family name identified themselves as being white,
  • 62.3%, or 471 total occurrences, as black,
  • 1.19%, or 9 total occurrences, as Asian and Pacific Islander,
  • 0.79%, or 6 total occurrences, as American Indian and Native Alaskan,
  • 0.66%, or 5 total occurrences, as two or more races, and
  • 2.12%, or 16 total occurrences, as Hispanic ethnic origin.


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