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cliff Name Meaning and History

English: habitational name from a place named with Old English clif ‘slope’, ‘bank’, ‘cliff’, or a topographic name from the same word. The Old English word was used not only in the sense of modern English cliff but also of much gentler slopes and frequently also of a riverbank.

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

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

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Distribution of cliff Families in the US in 1920
Number of cliff families
 29-56
 10-28		 1-9
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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Threads: 74 - Messages: 191
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Capt. Richard G. Cliff Jr., of Mount Pleasant, S.C. died Sept. 29, 2008 RIP_08 0
Cliff of N.Y. dmsdme 1
cliff bonny2uk 0
Cliff>.England>Canada>Michigan sharon4002 7
cliff family lynne6 1
Cliff family stephen Cliff 12
Burton Francis Cliff born PA 1877 lived in Newark, NJ kadydo 0
Edith Rudkin Cliff celiakelly60 0
Edith Rudkin Cliff celiakelly60 0
GETTING STARTED MICHAEL FREDERICK CLIFF 8
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