Klette Family History

German:: unflattering nickname for an annoyingly persistent and also ambitious person from Middle High German klette ‘burr’ by extension ‘nuisance’. nickname from Middle Low German klatte ‘tatter rag’ for a poor or unkempt person.

topographic name for someone who lived in a hovel from a Germanized Slavic word meaning ‘hovel’ or ‘shed’. habitational name from a place so named in Brandenburg (now Poland).