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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English : possibly a habitational name from Cleator in Cumbria, named from Old English clǣte ‘burdock’ + Old Norse erg ‘hill pasture’.
  • Possibly an Americanized spelling of North German Klöter, a variant of Klüter, a humorous nickname for a farmer, from Middle Low German klūt(e) ‘clod’.

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