Kleiman Family History
Kleiman Name Meaning
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 .
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022