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Cleveland

in the US

There are 25,570 people with the last name "Cleveland" in the United States.

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Ranking in the US

NameRank
Cleveland 1,038
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  1. is 1,034th most common Starr
  2. is 1,035th most common Tracy
  3. is 1,036th most common Cramer
  4. is 1,037th most common Flanagan
  5. is 1,038th most common Cleveland
  6. is 1,039th most common Pickett
  7. is 1,040th most common Sutherland
  8. is 1,041st most common Kessler
  9. is 1,042nd most common Alford

Most Common First Names for Cleveland

James, Robert, David, John, Michael, William, Mary, Charles

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.

Recent Searches for "Cleveland" in the US

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James Cleveland (97 searches)
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