Släkthistoria för Clowes
Clowes Vad efternamn betyder
English: topographic name from Middle English clouse cluse Old English clūse ‘bar enclosure narrow pass’ later ‘mill dam sluicegate or floodgate’. In the latter sense it may have been a metonymic occupational name applied to a miller. See also Clowser. English: variant of Close or Clow with post-medieval excrescent -s. Americanized form of German Klaus.
Källa: Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022
