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kleiber Name Meaning and History

  1. from an agent derivative of Middle High German kleben ‘to stick or bind’, an occupational name for a builder working with clay or, in Swabia, for someone who applied whitewash.
  2. in Bavaria and Austria, an occupational name for a shingle maker, from Middle High German klieben ‘to split (wood or stone)’. Compare Klauber.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of kleiber Families in the US in 1920
Number of kleiber families
 13-24
 5-12		 1-4
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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Threads: 16 - Messages: 40
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Joesph Kleiber arrived in New Orleans GeraldKlibertSr 3
Kleibers - Wisconsin, Michigan ROBINSSHERRY 3
Cox & Irick Photo Album includes Kleiber LetMe121363 0
Peter Anna Kleiber Jodi 11
KLEIBER-BADEN, GER TO PIQUA, OH Marianne McCalip 0
Anna Maria Kleiber - Germany balhouse 0
Wisconsin Kleiber's Kathy 3
Henry Jacob & Julia (Couture) Kleiber Jennifer Cluff 0
Christian Kleiber hkleiber50 1
Kleiber, Kliber, Klaiber Germany>NYS Karen 1
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