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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English : occupational name for a nailer, from an agent derivative of Old French clou ‘nail’. Compare Cloutier.
  • Americanized spelling of German Klauer (or the variant Clauer) or of Glauer, a nickname from Middle High German glau, glou ‘intelligent’, ‘circumspect’.

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