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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Ukrainian and Moldovan : nickname from Slavic klujka ‘gossip’, ‘tale-telling’.
  • Lithuanian : unflattering nickname from Lithuanian klukius ‘foolish man’, or possibly from kliukis ‘chatterer’, ‘blabberer’.

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