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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German : habitational name from Glave in Mecklenburg.
  • German : nickname for someone with a large or otherwise remarkable head, from Slavic glava ‘head’.
  • German : either a variant of 1 or more probably from the personal name Klaus.

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