Cleghorn is used as a family name or surname in Scotland. It is 8 characters long in length.

Family Name / Last Name: Cleghorn
No. of characters: 8
Origin: Scotland
Meaning:

A place in county of Lanark.

How popular is Cleghorn?

Cleghorn is common in United States, England, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Scotland, Jamaica, South Africa.

Cleghorn is ranked 84875 on our list.

As per 2010 US census, number of Cleghorns plummeted by 2.78 per cent to 2237 since 2000 and slipped by 1169 spots and ranked at 13551. The last name was found in around 8 per million population. Please refer to following table for race and ethnicity.

Race 2010 2000
White 87.48 88.96
Black 7.29 7.13
Hispanic or Latino 2.41 1.22
Others 2.1 1.65
American Indian and Alaska Native 0.4 0.7
Asian and Native Hawaiian
& Other Pacific Islander		 0.31 0.35
Cleghorn is quite popular family name mostly used in United States however Anguilla is ahead in terms of density. Around 5688 people have been found who wears Cleghorn as their family name. Cleghorn is used widely across the globe. More detailed information can be found below:
RankCountryCount
Countries with thousands of Cleghorn:
13,415 United States2,867
Countries with hundreds of Cleghorn:
8,389 England756
5,984 Canada748
9,683 Australia323
3,184 New Zealand249
2,519 Scotland242
1,487 Jamaica182
39,862 South Africa112
Countries with low frequency i.e., 50 - 100:
2,335 Panama83
Countries with very low frequency i.e., 10 - 50:
3,282 Trinidad and Tobago42
11,152 Wales19
Countries with very very low frequency i.e., 6 - 10:
45,470 Mexico9
10,839 Northern Ireland8
476,604 Thailand8

Immigrants to US

From Ireland

During the great famine, 20 years old spinster Marie Cleghorn who was residing in Ireland migrated to USA on May 3, 1849 by Cuthbert put out from Greenock. Andrew Cleghorn (45) Cotton Spinner, Cotton Spinner U Cleghorn, 22 years old Mary Cleghorn, 21 years old Margaret Cleghorn, Janet Cleghorn, aged 16, Andrew Cleghorn, aged 13, William Cleghorn, aged 12, 12 years old George Cleghorn, and 2 other Cleghorn around 75% of whom were cotton spinner migrated to US.

Cleghorn Namesakes

  • Irving Cleghorn, (August 22, 1863
  • Sarah Norcliffe Cleghorn, educator, author
  • William Cleghorn, British philosopher
  • Archibald Scott Cleghorn, Scottish businessman
  • Sprague Cleghorn, Ottawa Senators Toronto St
  • Odie Cleghorn, Canadian professional ice hockey player, coach
  • John Cleghorn, Canadian business executive and a former university leader
  • Mildred Cleghorn, was first chairperson of the Fort Sill Apache Tribe

Cleghorn Namesakes

  • Irving Cleghorn, (August 22, 1863
  • Sarah Norcliffe Cleghorn, educator, author
  • William Cleghorn, British philosopher
  • Archibald Scott Cleghorn, Scottish businessman
  • Sprague Cleghorn, Ottawa Senators Toronto St
  • Odie Cleghorn, Canadian professional ice hockey player, coach
  • John Cleghorn, Canadian business executive and a former university leader
  • Mildred Cleghorn, was first chairperson of the Fort Sill Apache Tribe

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