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The clift Surname

clift Name Meaning and History

  1. topographic name for someone who lived by a crevice in rock, from Middle English clift ‘cleft’.
  2. probably a variant of Cliff.

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

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

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Distribution of clift Families in the US in 1920
Number of clift families
 32-62
 11-31		 1-10
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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