Cloud

Family name origins & meanings

• English : topographic name for someone who lived near an outcrop or hill, from Old English clūd ‘rock’ (only later used to denote vapor formations in the sky).
• French : from the Germanic personal name Hlodald, composed of the elements hlōd ‘famous’, ‘clear’ + wald ‘rule’, which was borne by a saint and bishop of the 6th century.