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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Americanized spelling of German Klinger.
  • Possibly a variant of Clinker, an English occupational name for a maker or fixer of bolts and rivets, from an agent derivative of Middle English clinch, clench ‘door nail secured by riveting or clinching’ (see Clinch).

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