Cleaver Family History
Cleaver Name Meaning
English: from Middle English clevere ‘one who cleaves’
(a derivative of Old English cleofan ‘to split’), hence an
occupational name for someone who split wood into planks using a wedge
rather than a saw, or possibly for a butcher.English: topographic
name from Middle English cleve ‘bank’, ‘slope’ (from the dative
of Old English clif) + the suffix -er, denoting an
inhabitant.Americanized spelling of German Kliewer
or Klüver (see Kluver).
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Name Distribution of Cleaver Families
MAP:
United States
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Cleaver families
 86 - 169  29 - 85 |
 1 - 28  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Cleaver families
|
366 - 729 123 - 365 |
1 - 122 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Cleaver families
|
5 - 7 2 - 4 |
1 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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Cleaver Family Origin
Cleaver Immigration Information
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Average Life Expectancy for Cleaver
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Cleaver Family Occupations
from 1880 Federal Census Data
Cleaver census records
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