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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German : German from an agent derivate of kleben ‘to bind or stick’, hence an occupational name for someone who applied clay daub on buildings or, in Swabia, for someone who applied whitewash.
  • German : habitational name from various occurrences of Kleber as a field name; the etymology is uncertain.
  • German : perhaps a habitational name for someone from Cleve in Westphalia (see Kleve).

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