Klaus

At the 2020 census, 5,108 Americans bore the surname Klaus — 6,403rd out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 58,500.

By the numbers

People: 5,108
Rank: 6,403rd
How common: 1 in 58,500
Per 100,000: 1.7

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Klaus described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

White, not Hispanic 93.1%
Hispanic or Latino 3.2%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 2.4%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.9%
Black, not Hispanic 0.2%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.2%

Notable people called Klaus

Václav Klaus (born 1941)President of the Czech Republic from 2003 to 2013
Josef Klaus (1910–2001)Austrian chancellor, politician and lawyer
Bex Taylor-Klaus (born 1994)American actor
Felix Klaus (born 1992)German footballer

People named Klaus with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Surnames like Klaus

Also a first name

Klaus has been given to 1,471 American babies as a first name since 1953, peaking in 2022. See it as a given name.

Try it on yourself

Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.