Meaning and Origin of: Cleve

Boy name origins & meanings

  • Hebrew : Faithful; dog; bold
  • Old English : Land near the hill

Boy name variations

Caleb
Cale
Cal
Cliff
Colby
Cleveland
Clive
Cleavon
Cleaveland
Cleavland
Cleon
Clevon

Family name origins & meanings

  • English : habitational name from any of the numerous minor places, for example in Devon, Gloucestershire, and Oxfordshire, named Cleeve or Cleve ‘(place) at the cliff’, from the dative case clife of Old English clif ‘slope’, ‘cliff’. Compare Cliff.
  • Americanized spelling of Kleve.