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Kleiman

Feminine
Rare

Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German and Jewish (Ashkenazic) : nickname from a reduced form of German Kleinmann ‘small man’ or a variant of the Yiddish form, klayman.
  • North German (Kleimann) : topographic name for a farmer who worked on heavy clay soil (see Kleier).

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