Cleveland Family History
Cleveland Name Meaning
English: regional name from the district around Middlesbrough
named Cleveland ‘the land of the cliffs’, from the genitive plural
(clifa) of Old English clif ‘bank’, ‘slope’ +
land ‘land’. adm See also
Cleaveland.Americanized spelling of Norwegian
Kleiveland or Kleveland, habitational names from any of
five farmsteads in Agder and Vestlandet named with Old Norse
kleif ‘rocky ascent’ or klefi ‘closet’ (an allusion to a
hollow land formation) + land ‘land’.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Name Distribution of Cleveland Families
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United States
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Cleveland families
 222 - 441  75 - 221 |
 1 - 74  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Cleveland families
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64 - 126 22 - 63 |
1 - 21 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
| Sorry, we couldn't find geographic distribution information for the Cleveland last name |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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Cleveland Family Origin
Cleveland Immigration Information
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Cleveland Family Occupations
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