Kleemann Family History
Kleemann Name Meaning
German and Jewish (Ashkenazic): literally ‘clover man’ perhaps a topographic name; but in the north the surname would refer to a farmer who worked with clay the heavy soil of the marsh area from Middle Low German klai. As a Jewish name it is mainly artificial. German: from a derivative of the personal name Klemens . Germanized form of Sorbian Klěman an equivalent of Clement .
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022