Kleinhans: Last Name Origin and Family Crest

Heraldry is personal: arms associated with the Klein surname were borne by specific families, and sharing the name does not mean sharing the blazon.

Family name meaning

Kleinhans is a branch of the Klein name tree. Its meaning, shared with Klein, is “Small or young”.

Kleinhans adds -hans to the root of Klein, a common way of forming related surnames. Related forms: Kleins, Klehn and Kleine. 1,264 Americans were listed as Kleinhans in the 2010 census. That puts it among the top 25,000 US surnames. From 1891 to 2000, 342 births in France were registered under Kleinhans. The name became more frequent over the century.

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