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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Polish and Sorbian : from a short form of the personal name Kliment, Klemens, from the Latin personal name Clemens (see Clement).
  • Perhaps also a variant of South German Klimm, a topographic name from Middle High German klimme ‘height’, ‘hill’.
  • nickname for a fearful person, from Middle High German klimpfen ‘to press’, ‘to oppress’.

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