Cling Name Origin, Meaning and Family History

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Surname Distribution

Census frequency by county

Name Concentrations Within England and Wales

England

Bedfordshire 0
Buckinghamshire 0
Berkshire 0
Cambridgeshire 8
Channel Islands 0
Cheshire 0
Cornwall 0
Cumberland 0
Derbyshire 0
Devon 1
Dorset 0
Durham 0
Essex 0
Gloucestershire 0
Hampshire 0
Herefordshire 0
Hertfordshire 2
Huntingdonshire 0
Isle of Man 0
Kent 0
Lancashire 0
Leicestershire 0
Lincolnshire 0
London 2
Middlesex 0
Northumberland 0
Norfolk 0
Northamptonshire 5
Nottinghamshire 0
Oxfordshire 0
Rutland 0
Shropshire 0
Suffolk 0
Somerset 2
Surrey 0
Sussex 0
Staffordshire 0
Warwickshire 1
Westmorland 0
Wiltshire 0
Worcestershire 0
Yorkshire 0

Wales

Anglesey 0
Brecknockshire 0
Cardiganshire 0
Carnarvonshire 0
Carmarthenshire 0
Denbighshire 0
Flintshire 0
Glamorgan 0
Merionethshire 0
Montgomeryshire 0
Monmouthshire 0
Pembrokeshire 0
Radnorshire 0

Cling Surname Statistics


Top Professions for the Cling family

Profession Census Frequency
Agricultural Labourer 3
Silk Throuter Factory 2
Grocer 1
Female Servant 1
Butcher 1
Labourer 1
Pensioner 1

Most Frequent Forenames for Cling

Name Census Frequency
Mary Cling 14
William Cling 8
Elizabeth Cling 7
Jane Cling 6
John Cling 6
Thomas Cling 6
Charles Cling 5
Emma Cling 4
Hannah Cling 4
Samuel Cling 4
Ann Cling 3
Edward Cling 3
George Cling 3
Robert Cling 3
Sarah Cling 3
Susan Cling 3
Albert Cling 2
Anne Cling 2
Caroline Cling 2
Catherine Cling 2
Charlotte Cling 2
Eliza Cling 2
Florence Cling 2
Gertrude Cling 2
Henry Cling 2

Cling Surname Variants Ranking

Rank Surname Match Census Frequency
1 Cooling 71% 7,432
2 Couling 71% 2,817
3 Coling 83% 930
4 Coaling 71% 276
5 Clingo 83% 244
6 Coleing 71% 223
7 Culing 83% 185
8 Cling 100% 161
9 Kling 80% 134

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The surname Cling is the 8th most popular variant of Cooling.

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