Origin and popularity of the name CLEVELAND

Origin

Cleveland : 1: English: habitational name from any of several places in Devon Essex or the North Yorkshire formed from the genitive plural (clifa) of Old English clif ‘bank slope’ + land ‘land’.2: Americanized form (and a rare Norwegian variant) of Norwegian Kleveland or its variant Kleiveland and also of Kleven or its variant Kleiven.

Scarth : 1: English: habitational name from Scarth Wood in Whorlton (North Yorkshire) named with northern Middle English scarth(e) ‘cleft gap mountain pass’ (Old Norse skarth) with reference to a long narrow pass through the Cleveland Hills.2: Scottish and Irish: habitational name from Scarth in Firth (Orkney); the origin of the placename is as in 1 above. The Orkney family settled in Scarth in Firth in the 15th century taking their name from the place. They originally came from Norway and one of their ancestors was Alvar Haraldsson (1340–1412) secretary to King Haakon VI of Norway.

Yearby : English (Midlands): habitational name from Yearby in Cleveland (formerly in North Yorkshire). The placename derives from Old English uferra ‘higher upper’ + Old Norse bȳ ‘farmstead village’.

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