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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German : habitational name from a place in Mecklenburg, but more often a topographic name for someone who worked a smallholding, from Middle High German klein ‘small’ + velt ‘open country’.
  • Jewish (Ashkenazic) : ornamental name from German klein ‘small’ + feld ‘field’ (Yiddish kleynfeld).

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