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.
Source : DAFN2 : Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, ©2022 by Patrick Hanks and Oxford University Press
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