Cleff Name Origin, Meaning and Family History

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Surname Distribution

Census frequency by county

Name Concentrations Within England and Wales

England

Bedfordshire 0
Buckinghamshire 0
Berkshire 0
Cambridgeshire 0
Channel Islands 0
Cheshire 0
Cornwall 0
Cumberland 0
Derbyshire 0
Devon 0
Dorset 0
Durham 0
Essex 0
Gloucestershire 0
Hampshire 5
Herefordshire 0
Hertfordshire 0
Huntingdonshire 0
Isle of Man 0
Kent 1
Lancashire 14
Leicestershire 0
Lincolnshire 0
London 0
Middlesex 0
Northumberland 0
Norfolk 0
Northamptonshire 0
Nottinghamshire 0
Oxfordshire 0
Rutland 0
Shropshire 0
Suffolk 0
Somerset 0
Surrey 0
Sussex 0
Staffordshire 0
Warwickshire 0
Westmorland 0
Wiltshire 0
Worcestershire 0
Yorkshire 5

Wales

Anglesey 0
Brecknockshire 0
Cardiganshire 0
Carnarvonshire 0
Carmarthenshire 0
Denbighshire 0
Flintshire 0
Glamorgan 0
Merionethshire 0
Montgomeryshire 0
Monmouthshire 0
Pembrokeshire 0
Radnorshire 0

Cleff Surname Statistics


Top Professions for the Cleff family

Profession Census Frequency
Scholar 4
Infant 2
Retired Horse Dealer 1
Agricultural Labourer 1
Carder 1
Clogger 1
Coal Miner 1
Bread Baker 1
Miner 1
Supportes By Too Nephew 1

Most Frequent Forenames for Cleff

Name Census Frequency
Mary Cleff 20
John Cleff 14
George Cleff 12
Elizabeth Cleff 10
William Cleff 10
James Cleff 9
Alice Cleff 8
Sarah Cleff 8
Thomas Cleff 8
Joseph Cleff 7
Martha Cleff 7
Ann Cleff 4
Arthur Cleff 4
Henry Cleff 4
Margaret Cleff 4
Robert Cleff 4
Samuel Cleff 4
Ada Cleff 3
Annie Cleff 3
Charles Cleff 3
Edith Cleff 3
Edward Cleff 3
Ellen Cleff 3
Emma Cleff 3
Harold Cleff 3

Cleff Surname Variants Ranking

Rank Surname Match Census Frequency
1 Cliff 80% 22,286
2 Cliffe 67% 15,442
3 Cluff 80% 1,400
4 Culff 60% 404
5 Cleff 100% 251
6 Claff 80% 178

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The surname Cleff is the 5th most popular variant of Cliff.

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