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The klahr Surname

klahr Name Meaning and History

  1. German and Jewish (Ashkenazic): variant spelling of Klar.
  2. German: (Klähr): from a short form of the Latin personal name Hilarius (see Hillary). This surname is also found in Sweden, probably originally taken there from Germany.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of klahr Families in the US in 1920
Number of klahr families
 18-33
 7-17
 1-6
 0
Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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