The cliff Surname
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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