Clinton

Where Clinton comes from

* (English habitational surname): A habitational surname, derived from places named Glinton ("town on a hill") or Glympton ("settlement on the River Glyme"), from Old English [Term?] + tun (“enclosure, homestead, town”), equivalent to the modern -ton. * (given name): Derived from the surnames. * (DeWitt County): Named after DeWitt Clinton.
— Wiktionary's entry for Clinton
  • 2 syllables
Clinton through the years
  1. 1880
    First SSA year
    Already #165 among boys, with 79 babies in the first year on record.
  2. 1881
    Clinton Davisson born
    American physicist
  3. 1981
    Peak, #124
    2,206 babies named Clinton, the most in any year.
  4. 1993
    Clinton Njie born
    Cameroonian professional footballer
  5. 1993
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births, down to #316.
In the dictionary
  • A male given name transferred from the surname, of 19th century and later usage.
Namesakes
  • Clinton Davisson · American physicist, 1881–1958
  • Clinton Njie · Cameroonian professional footballer, born 1993

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.