Kleinfeld Family History
Kleinfeld Name Meaning
German: habitational name from a place so called in Mecklenburg but more often a topographic name for someone who worked a smallholding from Middle High German klein ‘small’ + velt ‘open country’. Jewish (Ashkenazic): artificial name from German klein ‘small’ + feld ‘field’ (Yiddish kleynfeld).
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022