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cleary Name Meaning and History

Irish: reduced Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Cléirigh (or Mac Cléirigh) ‘descendant (or son) of the scribe, clerk, or cleric (cléireach)’, also commonly Anglicized as Clark.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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cleary Family Facts

Distribution of cleary Families in the US in 1920
Number of cleary families
 377-752
 126-376		 1-125
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