Where Does the Kleiner Surname Come From?

Long before computers fixed spellings, Kleiner and Klein were used side by side. Its meaning, shared with Klein, is “Small or young”.

• Kleiner is built on the same root as Klein, with the ending -er.
• Kleiner ranked 12,140 in the 2010 US Census, with 2,566 people answering to the name. It sits within the 25,000 most common last names in the country. From 1891 to 2000, 182 births in France were registered under Kleiner.
• Census takers and immigration officers often wrote what they heard.

Arms associated with the name

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