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Cliff - Origin and Meaning of the name

Meaning of the name Cliff
 
 

 



[ 1 syll. clif(f), cl-i-ff ] The boy name Cliff is pronounced as KLIHF KEY. Cliff is mainly used in English and its language of origin is Old English.

Cliff is a short form of the English name Clifton.

Cliff is also a short form of the English name Clifford.

Cliff is also a variant form of the English name Clive.

Cliff is an uncommon baby boy name. At the height of its usage in 1904, 0.017% of baby boys were named Cliff. It was #433 in rank then. The baby name has steeply dropped in popularity since then, and is today used on a very modest scale. Within all boy names in its family, Cliff was nevertheless the most frequently used in 2007.

Baby names that sound like Cliff include the English Cleve, the English Clive, the English Clyve, the English Caleb, the English Cliffie, the English Colby, the Dutch, English, and German Kaleb, the English Kelby, and the English Kolby.

KEY: Pronunciation for Cliff: K as in "key (K.IY)" ; L as in "lee (L.IY)" ; IH as in "it (IH.T)" ; F as in "fee (F.IY)"


A famous person named Cliff is Singer Cliff Richard, born Harry Rodger Webb 14 October 1940, Lucknow, United Provinces, British India.

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