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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Eastern German and Czech : habitational name from a place so named from Slavic klos (Czech klas) ‘ear of a cereal plant’.
  • Eastern German and Czech : patronymic from a short form of the personal name Mikolas, Mikuláš, Slavic equivalents of Nicholas (see Klos).

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