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Cleveland

in Iowa

There are 262 people with the last name "Cleveland" in Iowa.

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Ranking in Iowa

NameRank
Cleveland 1,180
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  1. is 1,176th most common Stiles
  2. is 1,177th most common Whitehead
  3. is 1,178th most common Abbas
  4. is 1,179th most common Beaver
  5. is 1,180th most common Cleveland
  6. is 1,181st most common Dodge
  7. is 1,182nd most common Hurst
  8. is 1,183rd most common Milligan
  9. is 1,184th most common Condon

Most Common First Names for Cleveland

James, Charles, David, John, Mark, William, Dean, Dorothy, George, Jamie

Meaning & History

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.

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.

Recent Searches for "Cleveland" in Iowa

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James Cleveland, IA (9 searches)
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