Clause
surname · Latin script
Meaning: A group of words that contains a subject and a verb; it may be part of a sentence or may constitute the whole sentence, depending on the syntax in each instance
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/klɔz/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Clause is a surname written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in the United States.
- FRFrance
- USUnited States
- CACanada
Where the name is found, darker where our sources hold more of it. No national register counts its bearers anywhere we hold data, so the map carries no figures. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
A group of words that contains a subject and a verb; it may be part of a sentence or may constitute the whole sentence, depending on the syntax in each instance.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Recorded in:
- USUnited States
- FRFrance
- ARArgentina
- CACanada
- CLChile
No national register we accept counts this name’s bearers, so the page lists where it is found and publishes no figure.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Clause is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Latin, vocative masculine singular of clausus
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In enm, sentence, clause
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Georges Clauseb. 1922FRFrench historian and academic (1922-2013)
- Marcel Clauseb. 1927BEBelgian judoka
- Alain Clauseb. 1944FRFrench politician
- Patrick Clauseb. 1958FRFrench politician
- Colton Clauseactor
- Adam G. ClauseUSAmerican zoologist and herpetologist
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 16 sources across 8 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 1.3K | #19,599 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 1.2K | #21,633 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 1.2K | #22,036 |
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 327 | #5,014 |
| BE Belgium | Statbel — Noms de famille (family names) | — | 294 | #5,857 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 141 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1941 | 106 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 102 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1951 | 101 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1981 | 87 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1971 | 86 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1901 | 80 | — |
Reference works 1
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
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
- What does the name Clause mean, and where does it come from?
- A group of words that contains a subject and a verb; it may be part of a sentence or may constitute the whole sentence, depending on the syntax in each instance. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Clause?
- A machine transcription gives /klɔz/ (IPA) for English.
- What are other forms of the name Clause?
- In the etymology graph, Close is a form of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Clause have the most bearers?
- Clause is most frequently recorded in the United States.
What do you want to know about Clause?
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/clauseThe 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, “Clause”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.