apparently from Middle High German kle
‘clover’, either a topographic name for someone who lived near a field
of clover or a metonymic occupational name for someone who grew clover
to feed cattle.
from a shortened form of the personal name
Klemens.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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