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
Along the way
  1. 1880
    First SSA year
    Already #165 among boys — 79 babies in the first year on record.
  2. 1881
    Clinton Davisson born
    American physicist
  3. 1981
    Peak, #124
    2,206 babies named Clinton — more than any year before or since.
  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.