Cleveland Family History
Cleveland Name Meaning
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’. adm 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’.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Cleveland
Name Distribution of Cleveland Families
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England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Cleveland families
 64 - 126  22 - 63 |
 1 - 21  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
| Sorry, we couldn't find geographic distribution information for the Cleveland last name |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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Cleveland Family Origin
Cleveland Emigration Information (US)
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Cleveland Emigration Information (AU)
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from the Australian Convict Transportation Registers 1787-1868
Cleveland Family Occupations
from 1881 UK Census Data
Cleveland census records
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Military Service by Cleveland
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