Kleindienst Family History
Kleindienst Name Meaning
German: from klein ‘small’ + Dienst ‘service’ an occupational name for a farmhand or laborer who was second in line to a more highly paid class of servant (see also Kleinknecht ). The term also denoted a particular kind of tax levied in the Middle Ages hence the surname may be a metonymic occupational name for a collector of such taxes or for someone who had to pay such a tax.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022