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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Dutch and German : variant spelling of Kloss.
  • Polish : from a short form of Miklos, variant of the personal name Mikołaj, the Polish form of Nicholas.
  • Polish (Kłos) : probably also a nickname for a small person, from kłos ‘ear or spike of cereal’.

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