Clife Name Origin, Meaning and Family History

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Surname Distribution

Census frequency by county

Name Concentrations Within England and Wales

Cornwall 4
Gloucestershire 1
Hunts and Rutland 0
Kent 7
Lancashire 1
Oxfordshire 6
Anglesey 0
Bedfordshire 0
Buckinghamshire 0
Brecknockshire 0
Berkshire 0
Carnarvonshire 0
Cambridgeshire 0
Cardiganshire 0
Channel Islands 0
Cheshire 0
Carmarthenshire 0
Cumberland 0
Derbyshire 0
Denbighshire 0
Devon 0
Dorset 0
Durham 0
Essex 0
Flintshire 0
Glamorgan 0
Hampshire 0
Herefordshire 0
Hertfordshire 0
Isle of Man 0
Leicestershire 0
Lincolnshire 0
London 0
Middlesex 0
Merionethshire 0
Montgomeryshire 0
Monmouthshire 0
Northumberland 0
Norfolk 0
Northamptonshire 0
Nottinghamshire 0
Pembrokeshire 0
Radnorshire 0
Shropshire 0
Suffolk 0
Somerset 0
Surrey 0
Sussex 0
Staffordshire 0
Warwickshire 0
Westmorland 0
Wiltshire 0
Worcestershire 0
Yorkshire 0

Clife Surname Statistics


Top Professions for the Clife family

Profession Census Frequency
Copper Miner 1
Female Servant 1
Baryman 1
Grocer 1
Chimney Sweeper's Apprentice 1
Independent 1

Most Frequent Forenames for Clife

Name Census Frequency
Mary Clife 12
William Clife 12
John Clife 11
Ann Clife 8
Eliza Clife 7
Elizabeth Clife 7
Henry Clife 7
Thomas Clife 7
Sarah Clife 6
George Clife 4
James Clife 4
Jane Clife 4
Samuel Clife 4
Alice Clife 3
Charles Clife 3
Frank Clife 3
Richard Clife 3
Alfred Clife 2
Anna Clife 2
Annie Clife 2
Beatrice Clife 2
Caroline Clife 2
Edward Clife 2
Ellen Clife 2
Emily Clife 2

Clife Surname Variants Ranking

Rank Surname Match Census Frequency
1 Cliffe 83% 15,442
2 Calf 40% 777
3 Culf 40% 681
4 Calfe 60% 189
5 Clife 100% 178
6 Cleife 83% 141

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The surname Clife is the 5th most popular variant of Cliffe.

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