Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German : habitational name for someone from a place called Klevenow.
  • German : variant of Kleve.
  • Norwegian : habitational name from any of numerous farmsteads all over Norway named Kleven, from the definite singular form of Kleve.

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