Kleinmann
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Adjektivischer Übername zu klein-; -mann/-meier-Varianten, teils auch 'Meiers Sohn'
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/kɫaɪnmən/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Kleinmann is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- ILIsrael1 in 12Kas קליינמן(measured from records)
- CHSwitzerland1 in 560K
- RORomania≈1 in 38Kas קליינמן
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Kleinmann itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 60 (measured from records)
- 1 in 560K (inferred from the name graph)
3,383 named Kleinman, 2010
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Switzerland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled קליינמן in IL Israel, LB Lebanon, HU Hungary and Kleinman in US United States, RO Romania.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Adjektivischer Übername zu klein-; -mann/-meier-Varianten, teils auch 'Meiers Sohn'. 790 Tokens.
Sources 1
- Deutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 3: Morphologie der Familiennamen
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Kleinmann counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | — | 3,383as Kleinman | 1 in 98K | 3.4K | Kleinman | 60 |
| IL Israel | #885 | 714as קליינמן | 1 in 12K | 714 | קליינמן | 42 |
| RO Romania | — | ≈570 est. | ≈1 in 38K | — | Kleinman | 3 |
| NL Netherlands | — | 178as Kleinman | 1 in 97K | 178 | — | 1 |
| HU Hungary | — | ≈90 est. | ≈1 in 109K | — | קליינמן | 4 |
| LB Lebanon | — | ≈82 est. | ≈1 in 66K | — | קליינמן | 1 |
| CH Switzerland | — | 15 | 1 in 560K | 15 | — | 1 |
3,383 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: CBS Israel — Family names in Israel, 2017 ("שמות משפחה בישראל 2017"); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Édouard Kleinmannb. 1832FRFrench naturalist and banker
- Edouard Kleinmannb. 1844FRFrench publisher, printer, and engraver
- Amelia Kleinmannb. 1852mother of André Citroën
- Wilhelm Kleinmannb. 1876DEGerman politician (1876-1945)
- Louis Théodore Kleinmannb. 1907FRFrench military personnel (1907–1979)
- Rica Kleinmannb. 1946FRFrench association football player
- Dieter Kleinmannb. 1953DEGerman politician
- Alain Kleinmannb. 1953French painter and sculptor
- Larissa Kleinmannb. 1978DEGerman bicycle racer
- Matthias KleinmannDEresearcher
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 19 sources across 9 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 299 | #70,545 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 257 | #75,069 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 225 | #78,838 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 15 | #45,119 |
| NL Netherlands | CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007) | 2007 | 12 | #59,686 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 5
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- How do you pronounce Kleinmann?
- A machine transcription gives /kɫaɪnmən/ (IPA) for English.
- What does the name Kleinmann mean?
- Recorded meaning: Adjektivischer Übername zu klein-; -mann/-meier-Varianten, teils auch 'Meiers Sohn'.
- In which country does Kleinmann have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 3.4 thousand people named Kleinman, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Kleinmann most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Kleinmann is densest in Switzerland — about 1 in 560 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Kleinmann?
- In Switzerland, the national register counted 15 people named Kleinmann in 2024, about 1 in 560 thousand residents.
- How common is Kleinmann compared with other names?
- In Israel, Kleinmann is the 885th most common surname of 325,634 surnames recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/kleinmannThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Kleinmann” — the 885th most common surname in Israel. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.