Boy · Old English place name
Clinton
Say it: KLIN-tun
Meaning
From an English surname and place name; the second element is Old English tun 'settlement', the first is uncertain.
Uncertainseveral explanations, none settled.
Used as a first name in the US from the 1800s.
Its wave through time
Fading since the 1980s
In the United States
- 97,466 babies given this name since 1880
- At its height in 1981, about 1 in 812 boys
- 129 babies in 2020
Through the ages
Used by
Famous bearers
- DeWitt Clinton, New York governor
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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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