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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Jewish (Ashkenazic) : habitational name for someone from a place called Kleban in Ukraine.
  • Perhaps a shortened form of Klebanoff.
  • German : from Sorbian khleb ‘bread’ (Polish chleb), hence probably a metonymic occupational name for a baker.

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