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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Jewish : variant of Klar 4.
  • Americanized spelling of the German surname Klarmann, from Middle High German klar ‘pure’, ‘clear’, ‘sensible’, a nickname for an honorable man, also used as a personal name.

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