Cleary Family History
Cleary Name Meaning
Irish: reduced Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Cléirigh
(or Mac Cléirigh) ‘descendant (or son) of the scribe, clerk,
or cleric (cléireach)’, also commonly Anglicized as
Clark.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Name Distribution of Cleary Families
MAP:
United States
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Cleary families
 377 - 752  126 - 376 |
 1 - 125  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Cleary families
|
174 - 345 59 - 173 |
1 - 58 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Cleary families
|
36 - 70 13 - 35 |
1 - 12 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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Cleary Family Origin
Cleary Immigration Information
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Cleary Family Occupations
from 1880 Federal Census Data
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