Släkthistoria för Kleiman
Kleiman Vad efternamn betyder
Americanized form of North German Kleimann: topographic name for a farmer who worked on heavy clay soil (see Kleier). Americanized form of German Kleimann: nickname from a shortened form of Kleinmann ‘small man’. Jewish (eastern Ashkenazic): cognate of 2 from a shortened form of Kleinmann or from Yiddish kleynman (Polish Yiddish dialectal klaynman) ‘small man’. Compare Klayman and Kliman.
Källa: Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022
