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klinge Name Meaning and History

  1. 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.
  2. 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’.
  3. 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’).
  4. Dutch and Belgian: topographic name meaning ‘valley’ or habitational name from places named Klinge in East Flanders and Zeeland.
  5. Swedish: variant of Kling.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of klinge Families in the US in 1920
Number of klinge families
 13-23
 5-12		 1-4
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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Threads: 6 - Messages: 20
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Alice Klinge Larry Gockley 8
Angela Kretschmer Klinge fgruber24 2
name of male Klinge, emmigrated Germany to USA klinge1 3
August Henry Klinge Nancy Livengood 0
George L. Klinge - born (1889) in Iowa of parents born in Denmark. torri wilson 0
Iowa connections J. Barcus Perry 1
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