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Updated February 20, 2024

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Girl name origins & meanings

  • French : Lame; feminine variation of Claude

Boy name origins & meanings

  • Latin : Lame
  • Welsh : Heard from afar

How Popular Is The Name Clyde

Family name origins & meanings

  • Scottish and northern Irish : apparently a topographic name for someone who lived on the banks of the Clyde river (Gaelic Cluaidh, probably of pre-Celtic origin), which flows through Glasgow.

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