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Cleveland

in Rhode Island

There are 27 people with the last name "Cleveland" in Rhode Island.

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Ranking in Rhode Island

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Cleveland 5,078
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  1. is 5,074th most common Carchia
  2. is 5,075th most common Castore
  3. is 5,076th most common Centazzo
  4. is 5,077th most common Charello
  5. is 5,078th most common Cleveland
  6. is 5,079th most common Coggeshall
  7. is 5,080th most common Corbishley
  8. is 5,081st most common Covill
  9. is 5,082nd most common Crothers

Most Common First Names for Cleveland

Darrin, Agnes, Alan, Alberta, Anthony, Blair, Carmela, Chester

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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