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Cleveland

in New York

There are 1,270 people with the last name "Cleveland" in New York.

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Ranking in New York

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Cleveland 1,179
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  1. is 1,175th most common Mei
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  3. is 1,177th most common Alicea
  4. is 1,178th most common Leo
  5. is 1,179th most common Cleveland
  6. is 1,180th most common Gillespie
  7. is 1,181st most common Welsh
  8. is 1,182nd most common Pichardo
  9. is 1,183rd most common Nixon

Most Common First Names for Cleveland

James, Michael, Mary, Robert, David, Donald, John, Paul, Daniel, Richard

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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