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Clifton
Say it: KLIF-tun
Meaning
From an English surname and place name, Old English clif 'cliff' and tun 'settlement'.
Certainscholars agree on this meaning.
Used in the US from the 1880s to the 1950s.
Its wave through time
Fading since the 1910s
In the United States
- 70,234 babies given this name since 1880
- At its height in 1915, about 1 in 1,000 boys
- 111 babies in 2020
Through the ages
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Where this comes from
- United States Social Security birth records, 1880 to today source
- National census records of the 19th and 20th centuries
- United States Social Security birth records, 1880 to today source
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