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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German : topographic name for someone living on heavy soil, from Middle Low German klei ‘clay’.
  • German : habitational name from any of various places named Kley or Klei, notably in Westphalia, of uncertain origin.
  • German : from the personal name Kley, a Franconian derivative of the saint’s name Eligius, or alternatively from a Rhenish short form of the personal name Nikolaus.
  • German : Americanized spelling of Klee.

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