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cleve Name Meaning and History

  1. English: habitational name from any of the numerous minor places, for example in Devon, Gloucestershire, and Oxfordshire, named Cleeve or Cleve ‘(place) at the cliff’, from the dative case clife of Old English clif ‘slope’, ‘cliff’. Compare Cliff.
  2. Americanized spelling of Kleve.

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Distribution of cleve Families in the US in 1920
Number of cleve families
 8-13
 3-7
 1-2
 0
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CLEVE/CLEAVES/CLIVE/CLIVES Joyce Osborne 0

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