Klim Family History
- Klim Name Meaning
- Polish and Sorbian: from a short form of the personal name Kliment, Klemens, from the Latin personal name Clemens (see Clement). Perhaps also a variant of South German Klimm, a topographic name from Middle High German klimme ‘height’, ‘hill’. nickname for a fearful person, from Middle High German klimpfen ‘to press’, ‘to oppress’.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 15,068 Historical Documents with Klim on Ancestry
- 6,885 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 4,610 Census and Voter Lists
- 757 Military Records
- 1,157 Immigration Records
- 1,659 Member Trees
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Number of Klim families
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from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
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from the 1851 Canada Census Data
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from 1881 CA Census Data
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