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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • French : from a pet form of Clair.
  • Swedish : derivative of klar ‘clear’ (possibly representing an element of a place name) + -in (suffix of surnames derived from Latin -inus, -inius ‘descendant of’).

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