Last Name CLIFFORD

Summary/Contribute


Meaning Local: Of Clifford, parishes in dioces of Hereford, and Gloucester, and Bristol; also a township in the parish of Bramham, near Leeds, county York.
Local: The for or way by the cliff.
Origin English, Irish, Falkland, Austrian

Rank 1,486 (2000 US census) 1,630 (1990 US census)
Count 21,974 (2000 US census)

Race / ethnic distribution

The 2000 US Census claims that
  • 91.16%, or 20031 total occurrences, of those with this family name identified themselves as being white,
  • 3.53%, or 776 total occurrences, as black,
  • 0.56%, or 123 total occurrences, as Asian and Pacific Islander,
  • 1.84%, or 404 total occurrences, as American Indian and Native Alaskan,
  • 1.29%, or 283 total occurrences, as two or more races, and
  • 1.61%, or 354 total occurrences, as Hispanic ethnic origin.


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