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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German (Klüver) : from an agent derivative of Kluven ‘split wooden block’ (related to Middle Low German kluven ‘to split or cleave’), hence an occupational name for an official whose responsibilities included putting prisoners into the stocks.

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