Claus Family History
Claus Name Meaning
Variant spelling of German Klaus, which is from a
popular personal name, a reduced form of Nikolaus (see
Nicholas). This spelling is also found in Dutch.Occitan:
topographic name for someone who lived by an enclosure of some sort,
such as a courtyard or farmyard, from Late Latin clausum
‘enclosure’, ‘closed’, originally the past participle of
claudere ‘to close’.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Name Distribution of Claus Families
MAP:
United States
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Claus families
 57 - 112  20 - 56 |
 1 - 19  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Claus families
|
14 - 25 5 - 13 |
1 - 4 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Claus families
|
3 - 3 2 - 2 |
1 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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Claus Family Origin
Claus Immigration Information
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Average Life Expectancy for Claus
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Claus Family Occupations
from 1880 Federal Census Data
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