The clyne Surname
clyne Name Meaning and History
- Irish (Roscommon and Longford): variant of (Mac)Kilcline, an Anglicization of Gaelic Mac Giolla Chlaoin ’son of the deceitful lad’, from claon ‘deceitful’.
- Scottish: habitational name from any of various places named Clyne, from Gaelic claon ‘slope’.
- Americanized spelling of German and Jewish Klein.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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