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The claus Surname

claus Name Meaning and History

  1. Variant spelling of German Klaus, which is from a popular personal name, a reduced form of Nikolaus (see Nicholas). This spelling is also found in Dutch.
  2. Occitan: topographic name for someone who lived by an enclosure of some sort, such as a courtyard or farmyard, from Late Latin clausum ‘enclosure’, ‘closed’, originally the past participle of claudere ‘to close’.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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The claus name in History

A unique volume of fascinating facts, statistics and commentary following the claus family name as far back in history as possible.

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Distribution of claus Families in the US in 1920
Number of claus families
 57-112
 20-56		 1-19
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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