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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German : topographic or habitational name, a variant of Klink, the -er suffix denoting an inhabitant.
  • Dutch : metonymic occupational name for a road paver, from Middle Dutch clinkaert ‘brick’, ‘clinker paving’.

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