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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • North German : probably a variant of Klütermes, a metonymic occupational name for an inspector in the wool trade, from dialect klüter ‘wool weight (22 lbs.)’ + mes(se) ‘weight’ (a lump of metal), ‘measure’.

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