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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Polish : from a pet form of the personal name Mikołaj, Polish form of Nicholas. Compare Klos.
  • Polish (Kłus) : nickname from kłus ‘trot’, kłusak ‘trotter’.
  • North German : topographic name from Middle Low German kluse ‘monk’s cell’, ‘narrow passage’. Compare Klausner.

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