Cleaver

English occupational name

Cleaver Origin and Meaning

The name Cleaver is a boy's name .

More familiar from TV -- Rake, Leave It To Beaver -- than real life, and perhaps likely to stay that way, given the gruesome association with a butcher's knife. Cleaver was, for instance, the title of the violent mob movie Christopher wrote in the world of The Sopranos.

Famous People Named Cleaver

• Cleaver Ernest Bunton Australian Senator
• (Leroy) Eldridge Cleaver American leader of the Black Panther Party

Cleaver in Pop Culture

• Cleaver family name on TV's "Leave it to Beaver"
• "Cleaver " film,within,a,TV,show on TV's "The Sopranos"
• Cleaver a tool for cutting meat