Klunder Family History
Klunder Name Meaning
German (Klünder) and Dutch: nickname for a loud person or a trouble maker from a noun derivative of Middle Low German klunderen ‘to make noise’ Middle Dutch clonen cleunen ‘clapping snapping’. Compare Kluender . German: perhaps a nickname for a small or dirty person from Low German klunter ‘small lump of dirt’. Alternatively a cognate of 1 above.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022