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klish Name Meaning and History

  1. from Old Polish klec ‘shabby room’ or ‘gossip’, or from Upper Sorbian kletka ‘smallholding’, ‘tumbledown house’ (from Old Slavic kleti ‘house’).
  2. alternatively, it may be from the Slavic personal name Klich, a derivative of the personal name Kliment (see Clement).

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of klish Families in the US in 1920
Number of klish families
 10-17
 4-9		 1-3
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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Klish, John (1883 - 1958) - SPJ 27 January 1917 osiedacz 0
Obituary for Robert N. Klish - Wisconsin 2008 KruegerAgain 0
Henry Klish Joanne Brown 2
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