The kleindienst Surname
kleindienst Name Meaning and History
German: from German 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 name for a collector of
such taxes or for someone who had to pay such a tax.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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