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Submitted Name (1)
Type Surname (from location)
Other Forms FormsCleaveland
Meaning & History
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’. See also
CLEAVELAND.
This was the surname of American president Grover Cleveland (1837-1908). It is also the name of an American city, which was founded by surveyor Moses Cleaveland (1754-1806).
Submitted Name (2)
Type Surname (from location)
Meaning & History
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) and
land "land".
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