Family name origins & meanings
- English : topographic name for someone who lived by an enclosure of some sort, such as a courtyard set back from the main street or a farmyard, from Middle English clos(e) (Old French clos, from Late Latin clausum, past participle of claudere ‘to close’).
- English : from Middle English clos(e) ‘secret’, applied as a nickname for a reserved or secretive person.
- Dutch : variant of Claeys.
- Altered spelling of German Klose.