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Cleveland

in Illinois

There are 775 people with the last name "Cleveland" in Illinois.

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Ranking in Illinois

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Cleveland 1,399
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  1. is 1,395th most common Plummer
  2. is 1,396th most common Robison
  3. is 1,397th most common Bernal
  4. is 1,398th most common Neely
  5. is 1,399th most common Cleveland
  6. is 1,400th most common Gale
  7. is 1,401st most common Velasco
  8. is 1,402nd most common Wilhelm
  9. is 1,403rd most common Calvert

Most Common First Names for Cleveland

Michael, Robert, James, Mary, David, William, Margaret, Barbara, Brian, Edward

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Meaning & History

1. English: regional name from the district around Middlesbrough named Cleveland ‘the land of the cliffs’, from the genitive plural (clifa) of Old English clif ‘bank’, ‘slope’ + land ‘land’. See also Cleaveland.

2. Americanized spelling of Norwegian Kleiveland or Kleveland, habitational names from any of five farmsteads in Agder and Vestlandet named with Old Norse kleif ‘rocky ascent’ or klefi ‘closet’ (an allusion to a hollow land formation) + land ‘land’.

FOREBEARS Grover Cleveland (1837–1908), 22nd and 24th president of the U.S., was the fifth child of a country Presbyterian clergyman. His father, Richard Falley Cleveland, a graduate of Yale College and of the theological seminary at Princeton, was descended from a certain Moses Cleaveland who arrived in MA in 1635.

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