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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Eastern German : habitational name for someone from a place named with Lithuanian klava ‘maple’.
  • Eastern German : Germanized form of the Latvian patronymic Klevas, a derivative of the forename Klāvs, a pet form of Nikolaus (see Nicholas).

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