Cleve 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 7
Dorset 0
Durham 0
Essex 3
Gloucestershire 0
Hampshire 8
Herefordshire 0
Hertfordshire 2
Huntingdonshire 0
Isle of Man 0
Kent 0
Lancashire 0
Leicestershire 0
Lincolnshire 0
London 4
Middlesex 0
Northumberland 0
Norfolk 0
Northamptonshire 0
Nottinghamshire 0
Oxfordshire 0
Rutland 0
Shropshire 0
Suffolk 0
Somerset 1
Surrey 0
Sussex 1
Staffordshire 0
Warwickshire 1
Westmorland 0
Wiltshire 0
Worcestershire 2
Yorkshire 0

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

Cleve Surname Statistics


Top Professions for the Cleve family

Profession Census Frequency
Independent 3
Agricultural Labourer 1
Farmer 1
Ag Labourer 1
Female Servant 1
Brick Maker 1
Publican 1

Most Frequent Forenames for Cleve

Name Census Frequency
Mary Cleve 20
William Cleve 17
John Cleve 16
Elizabeth Cleve 11
Sarah Cleve 11
Frederick Cleve 8
George Cleve 8
Robert Cleve 8
Thomas Cleve 8
Ann Cleve 7
James Cleve 7
Jane Cleve 7
Charles Cleve 6
Richard Cleve 6
Alice Cleve 5
Henry Cleve 5
Edward Cleve 4
Emma Cleve 4
Harriet Cleve 4
Louisa Cleve 4
Maria Cleve 4
Alfred Cleve 3
Annie Cleve 3
Catherine Cleve 3
Edith Cleve 3

Cleve Surname Variants Ranking

Rank Surname Match Census Frequency
1 Cleave 83% 5,795
2 Clive 80% 2,154
3 Cleeve 83% 1,426
4 Clave 80% 303
5 Cleve 100% 288
6 Clove 80% 192

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The surname Cleve is the 5th most popular variant of Cleave.

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