Klinge Family History
Klinge Name Meaning
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.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’.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’).Dutch and Belgian: topographic name
meaning ‘valley’ or habitational name from places named Klinge in East
Flanders and Zeeland.Swedish: variant of Kling.
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Klinge
Name Distribution of Klinge Families
MAP:
United States
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Klinge families
 13 - 23  5 - 12 |
 1 - 4  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Klinge families
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3 - 4 2 - 2 |
1 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
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from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Klinge census records
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Klinge Family Origin
Klinge Immigration Information
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Average Life Expectancy for Klinge
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Klinge Family Occupations
from 1880 Federal Census Data
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Klinge Civil War Service Records
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