Kline

Kline is the 778th most common surname in the United States, shared by 43,180 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 6,922.

By the numbers

People: 43,180
Rank: 778th
How common: 1 in 6,922
Per 100,000: 14.5

Where the name comes from

Origin German

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 91.2%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 3.1%
Hispanic or Latino 2.8%
Black, not Hispanic 1.8%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.8%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.3%

Notable people called Kline

Kevin Kline (born 1947)American actor
Franz Kline (1910–1962)American painter
Morris Kline (1908–1992)American mathematician, teacher and author
Richard Kline (born 1944)American actor and director
John Kline (born 1947)American politician
Richard H. Kline (1926–2018)American cinematographer

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

Surnames like Kline

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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.