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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German and Jewish (Ashkenazic) : variant spelling of Klar.
  • German : (Klähr): from a short form of the Latin personal name Hilarius (see Hillary). This surname is also found in Sweden, probably originally taken there from Germany.

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