Last Name RADCLIFFE

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Meaning	Local: Of Radcliffe, a parish in county Lancashire, one of four only places in the Salford Hundred mentioned in Domesday. Radcliffe is two miles from Bury, and it is in this district the surname was especially common.

Origin	English, Spanish, Irish

Rank	5,362 (2000 US census)	5,805 (1990 US census)

Count	5,976 (2000 US census)

Race / ethnic distribution

The 2000 US Census claims that

88.02%, or 5260 total occurrences, of those with this family name identified themselves as being white,
7.98%, or 477 total occurrences, as black,
0.47%, or 28 total occurrences, as Asian and Pacific Islander,
0.52%, or 31 total occurrences, as American Indian and Native Alaskan,
1.34%, or 80 total occurrences, as two or more races, and
1.67%, or 100 total occurrences, as Hispanic ethnic origin.

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