Last Name SINCLAIR

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Meaning	Local: Of St. Clair, some chapelry in Normandy. A corruption of St. Clare. The family are descended from Walderness Compte de Saint Clare, who came into England with William the Conqueror; his son, William de Sancto Claro, settled in Scotland, where he obtained from Alexander I, a grant of the Barony of Roslyn. A corruption of St. Clair, and that from St. Clara, from the Latin 'clarus,' pure, renowned, illustrious.

Origin	English, Scottish, Jewish, Irish, Falkland, Maltese, Belgian, South african

Rank	1,239 (2000 US census)	1,107 (1990 US census)

Count	26,014 (2000 US census)

Race / ethnic distribution

The 2000 US Census claims that

76.55%, or 19914 total occurrences, of those with this family name identified themselves as being white,
17.96%, or 4672 total occurrences, as black,
0.48%, or 125 total occurrences, as Asian and Pacific Islander,
0.7%, or 182 total occurrences, as American Indian and Native Alaskan,
1.8%, or 468 total occurrences, as two or more races, and
2.49%, or 648 total occurrences, as Hispanic ethnic origin.

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