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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German : from Middle Low German klatte ‘rag’, ‘low-grade wool’; also ‘tousled hair’, hence a nickname for someone with untidy hair.
  • German : Silesian variant of Klette (see Klett 1).

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