Clea is used as a family name or surname in Ireland, England. It is 4 characters long in length.
Family name is the variation of Clee. Parishes in counties Lincoln and Salop.
Clea is variant form of Clay. Several localities bear this name, but the surname must sometimes have been adopted from residence in a clayey district. The forms in the Hundred Rolls are Cley, Clai, in le Clay, del Clay, and de la Cleye. Le Clayere may be synonymous, although a Cleymanne was, according to the Promptorium Parvulorum, a dauber or plasterer.
Variant of the Clay. Dweller at the clayey place.
How popular is Clea?
As per 2010 US census, number of Cleas plummeted by 1.02 per cent to 195 since 2000 and slipped by 6192 spots and ranked at 93921. The last name was found in merely 7 per ten million population. Please refer to following table for race and ethnicity.
| Race | 2010 | 2000 |
|---|---|---|
| Black | 90.26 | 85.79 |
| White | 7.18 | 6.09 |
Immigrants to US
From Germany
Farmer G. Clea from Germany aboard the Adonis from Bremen. He is registered to be 26 years old when he arrived in USA on July 18, 1853.
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