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Cleveland

in New Jersey

There are 251 people with the last name "Cleveland" in New Jersey.

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Ranking in New Jersey

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Cleveland 3,150
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  1. is 3,146th most common Prescott
  2. is 3,147th most common Thiel
  3. is 3,148th most common Beers
  4. is 3,149th most common Benedict
  5. is 3,150th most common Cleveland
  6. is 3,151st most common Combs
  7. is 3,152nd most common Feeley
  8. is 3,153rd most common Houck
  9. is 3,154th most common Johnsen

Most Common First Names for Cleveland

James, Robert, Carol, Janet, Jennifer, Joan, Gary, Jay, Joseph, Kenneth

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.

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