as a Last Name
- 33,716
- people in the U.S. have this name Get contact details for people named Cleveland
Meaning & Origins
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.
| 1,042nd in the U.S. for 2011 |
Nicknames & variations
Quick facts
- Tens of Thousands
- of people in the U.S have this name
- 33,716
- to be exact (as of February 2011)
- Alabama
- has the most people named Cleveland per capita
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