Cloître is used as a family name or surname in many languages. It is 8 characters long in length.

Family Name / Last Name: Cloître
No. of characters: 8
Origin: Unknown
Meaning: Means the person who lives in a place called the Cloister, where there was a monastery. It was in Britain that the name is the most common (29), is also found in Savoie and Dauphiné (Cloitres variant) ainisi in the Oise. Note the Breton-Pleyben common Cloister and the Cloister-Saint-Thégonnec (29).

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Jesusa Nosal
 This is the name of a locality of the Finistere department, indicates family origin the etymology of the name comes from the Latin meaning claustrum: closed, and by extension the monastery / convent.

Cloître Namesakes

  • Erwan Cloitre, Film actor

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