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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Respelling of German Klähr, a variant of Klar.
  • North German : of uncertain origin. Either from the medieval personal name Hilarius or from an old German personal name formed with a derivative of Latin clarus ‘famous’ (see Klar).

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