Kley Family History
Kley Name Meaning
German and Dutch: from a pet form of the personal name Nikolaus (German) or Nicolaas (Dutch). German and Dutch: topographic name or metonymic occupational name for someone who lived near fields of clay or who worked with the material from Middle Low German or Dutch klei ‘clay’. German; Dutch (also Van der Kley): habitational name from any of various places called Kley or Klei notably in Westphalia and the Netherlands of the same origin as 2 above. Compare Klei . Possibly also an Americanized form of German Klee .
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022