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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English : variant of Clough.
  • English : metonymic occupational name for a nailer, from Old French clou ‘nail’. Compare Clower.
  • Possibly an Americanized spelling of German Klau, a habitational name for someone from Klau near Aachen or Clauen in Lower Saxony, or Glau, a nickname for an astute person, from Old High German, Low German glou, glau ‘circumspect’.

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