The klinge Surname
klinge Name Meaning and History
- German: topographic name for someone who lived in a valley or ravine, or near a mountain stream, Middle High German klinge ‘murmuring brook’. There are many places named with this word, and the surname may also be a habitational name from any of them.
- North German: topographic name for someone living near a ford or on boggy moorland, from Low German klinge ‘ford’, ‘muddy heath’, or a habitational name from Klinge in Schleswig-Holstein, Klingen, or any of several other places containing the element klinge ‘ford’.
- German and Danish: metonymic occupational name for a cutler or swordsmith, from Middle High German klinge ‘metal blade’, ‘sword’ (a later imitative derivative of klingen ‘to ring or clatter’).
- Dutch and Belgian: topographic name meaning ‘valley’ or habitational name from places named Klinge in East Flanders and Zeeland.
- Swedish: variant of Kling.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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| Alice Klinge | Larry Gockley | 8 |
| Angela Kretschmer Klinge |
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| name of male Klinge, emmigrated Germany to USA |
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| August Henry Klinge |
njliven
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| George L. Klinge - born (1889) in Iowa of parents born in Denmark. |
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| Iowa connections | J. Barcus Perry | 1 |
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