CLIFFORD,CLIFTON, CLINTON
and the abbreviated CLIFF and CLINT are all Old english place names and mean...near the cliff. CLIFFORD is stream or crossing near the cliff, PALI is a cliff; ALA'AU is a stream crossing, and KAUHALE is a town, PILI I KA PALI is near the cliff. Another, simpler possiblility would be HALEHALE which means high and towering as a cliff. The Hawaiianized-English form of CLIFF is KALIPA which is the Hawaiian form of the English words acliph.