Cleve

Diminutive of Cleveland

"hilly land, from the cliff"

Cleve Origin and Meaning

The name Cleve is a boy's name.

Appealing short form of the stuffy Cleveland, occasionally used on its own.

Cleve Rank in US Top 1000

# 936 in the US

Famous People Named Cleve

• Cleveland Keith "Cleve" Benedict U.S. Congressman from West Virginia
• Cleve Jones American gay rights activist
• Cleve Gray American painter
• Cleveland "Schoolboy Cleve" White American blues harmonica player
• Cleve Cartmill American science fiction novelist
• Cleve Barry Moler American mathematician and computer scientist
• Kerr Van Cleve Smith American actor