as a Last Name
- 342
- people in the U.S. have this name Get contact details for people named Cleve
Meaning & Origins
English: habitational name from any of the numerous minor places, for example in Devon, Gloucestershire, and Oxfordshire, named Cleeve or Cleve ‘(place) at the cliff’, from the dative case clife of Old English clif ‘slope’, ‘cliff’. Compare Cliff.
| 62,692nd in the U.S. for 2011 |
Nicknames & variations
Cleveland, Clevenger, Clever, Clevinger, Cleven, Cleverly, Cleverley, Clevidence, Clevland, Cleveringa
Quick facts
- Hundreds
- of people in the U.S have this name
- 342
- to be exact (as of February 2011)
- Wyoming
- has the most people named Cleve per capita
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