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

Clives Surname Statistics


Top Professions for the Clives family

Profession Census Frequency
Nurse 1
Puddler At Iron Works 1
Soldier 1
Labourer 1
No Occupation 1
Gun Maker 1
Tailoress 1

Most Frequent Forenames for Clives

Name Census Frequency
William Clives 10
Mary Clives 7
Thomas Clives 7
Elizabeth Clives 6
Alfred Clives 5
George Clives 5
Hannah Clives 5
James Clives 5
Samuel Clives 5
John Clives 4
Joseph Clives 4
Emily Clives 3
Richard Clives 3
Robert Clives 3
Sarah Clives 3
Alice Clives 2
Clara Clives 2
Edward Clives 2
Eliza Clives 2
Ellen Clives 2
Frederick Clives 2
Jane Clives 2
Maria Clives 2
Olive Clives 2
Violet Clives 2

Clives Surname Variants Ranking

Rank Surname Match Census Frequency
1 Cleaves 71% 1,515
2 Cleves 83% 581
3 Cloves 83% 481
4 Cleeves 71% 364
5 Clives 100% 150
6 Claves 83% 104

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The surname Clives is the 5th most popular variant of Cleaves.

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