The Kleins Name: Records, Origin and Blazon

Kleins is one more way Klein has been written over the centuries. Read literally, Kleins points to “Small or young”.

• The same family of names includes Kleine, Kleijn and Kleinhans.
• Kleins adds a patronymic ending to Klein, meaning ‘son of’ or ‘of the family of’.
• Regional accents shaped spellings long before dictionaries fixed them.

Arms associated with the name

A coat of arms belongs to a particular family line rather than to everyone named Kleins, so the heraldry linked to Klein is a starting point, not an automatic right. Get the complete Kleins report, with a museum-style coat of arms.