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Surname Etymology and Meaning of CLOUGH

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(origin: Anglo-Saxon. Local) A small valley between hills, a breach; from the past of the Anglo-Saxon participle cleofian, to cleave, divide.

Source: An Etymological Dictionary of Family and Christian Names With an Essay on their Derivation and Import (1857).

1. English: topographic name for someone who lived near a precipitous slope, Middle English clough (Old English cloh ‘ravine’).
2. Welsh: nickname from cloff ‘lame’.

Source: Dictionary of American Family Names (2003)