Cleveland

Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.

Names that people choosing a name often weigh against Cleveland, most often first. They share a style rather than an origin.

• Grover
• Elmo
• Garfield
• Denver
• Ernie
• Arizona
• Kermit
• Dallas
• Jefferson
• Alaska
• Brooklyn
• Memphis

From the names suggested together in public name-advice forums, in English. A list of what people consider, not a measure of how common any name is.

Cleveland is also recorded as another name, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

• a separate name2 spellings in the group

  Also written Κλιβελαντ

63 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Cleveland is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

• In English, Old English: land of high cliffs; from the ford by the cliff

  as a name·Baby names, 25,350 baby names nicknames for your family, friends pets, including the top 100 names, 2,000 most popular…

• In English, around Middlesbrough, so called from OF clif cliff (see Clive) + land land. Vars.: Clitherow, Cleatherow, Cluderay.

  as a name·The Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles

• In English, A geographic area of hills and dales in North Yorkshire, England.

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

• In English, G rover, 22d & 24th US president;

  as a name·Pronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names

• In English, city,OH; county, AR, NC, OK;

  as a name·Pronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

• Grover Clevelandb. 1837USPresident of the United States (1885–89; 1893–97)
• Cleveland Abbeb. 1838USAmerican meteorologist and advocate of time zones (1838-1916)
• Rose Clevelandb. 1846USFirst Lady of United States (1846-1918)
• Frances Clevelandb. 1864USFirst Lady of the United States from 1886 to 1889 and 1893 to 1897
• Ruth Clevelandb. 1891USDaughter of Grover Cleveland
• Esther Clevelandb. 1893USsecond child of American president Grover Cleveland (1893–1980)
• Cleveland Amoryb. 1917USAmerican writer (1917–1998)
• James Clevelandb. 1931USAmerican gospel singer, musician, and composer
• Carol Clevelandb. 1942GBAmerican-British actress
• Davis Clevelandb. 2002USAmerican actor

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

What does the name Cleveland mean, and where does it come from?

Person from Cleveland, the hilly district around Middlesbrough. Recorded by Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history].

In which country does Cleveland have the most bearers?

Cleveland is most frequently recorded in Gabon, where it is most often spelled cleveland.