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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German (Klüger) : nickname meaning ‘(the) refined one’, ‘(the) clever one’, from an agent derivative of Middle High German kluoc (see Kluge).
  • Jewish (Ashkenazic) : nickname from an inflected form of German and Yiddish klug ‘clever’, ‘wise’.

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