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.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 53,464 Historical Documents with Klinge on Ancestry
- 30,055 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 5,161 Census and Voter Lists
- 2,649 Military Records
- 1,710 Immigration Records
- 13,889 Member Trees
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Number of Klinge families
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from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
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from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
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from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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from 1880 Federal Census Data
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- Confederate
- 1
- Union
- 14
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