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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Altered form of North German Klobedanz, a nickname for a killjoy or spoilsport, from Middle Low German kloven ‘to cleave’ + danz ‘dance’, i.e. ‘one who breaks up the dance’.

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