Clowes Family History
Clowes Name Meaning
English: topographic name from Middle English clouse cluse Old English clūse ‘bar enclosure narrow pass’ later ‘mill dam sluicegate or floodgate’. In the latter sense it may have been a metonymic occupational name applied to a miller. See also Clowser . English: variant of Close or Clow with post-medieval excrescent -s. Americanized form of German Klaus .
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022