Name Cliff

Origin:

From Old English words for cliff and ford

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Name info:

About the name Cliff in particular

Gender:	male
Languages of use:	English
Is short form of:	Clifford
Popularity:	no rank in any popularity list in this database
Similarly written:	Cliff, Ariff, Clint, Clio, Clive, Elif Details

Group info:

About Clifford, the group of names with the same origin as Cliff

Language of origin:	Old English
Info about origin:	from a family name deriving from a place name with the meaing ford by a cliff
	in use as a given name since around the 19th century
Words:	clif = the cliff Old English
	ford = the ford (shallow part of a river used for crossing it) Old English
Topics:	Family name, Geographic name
Variants' top ranks:	43:Clifford England+Wales 1904