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Meaning & History
Combination of Heath and Cliff, meaning "heath near a cliff". It was created by Emily Brontë (1818-1848) for her novel Wuthering Heights, in which the main character and antihero is named Thrushcross Grange Heathcliff, called Heathcliff. It is also the full name of Cliff Huxtable in the popular 80s and 90s television series "The Cosby Show".