Clinton Family History
Clinton Name Meaning
Irish (Louth Westmeath) and Scottish: shortened form of McClinton . English: habitational name either from Glympton in Oxfordshire named as ‘settlement (Old English tūn) on the Glym river’ a Celtic river name meaning ‘bright stream’ or from Glinton in Northamptonshire early recorded as Clinton (named with an unrecorded Old English element akin to Middle Low German glinde ‘enclosure fence’ + Old English tūn). The surname was taken to Ireland in or before the 16th century.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022