Klau
surname · Latin script
Meaning: theft
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 5 countries · latest register: BFS, 2024
/klˈa͡ʊ/(machine-generated) Indonesian · model-generated
Klau is a surname written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in the United States.
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
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)theft
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Where in the world
(measured from records)Klau counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
| Country | Most common spelling | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | — | 113 | — |
| BR Brazil | — | 24 | — |
| CH Switzerland | — | 5 | — |
| BE Belgium | — | 3 | — |
| EE Estonia | — | listed | — |
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: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register). 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).
Other recorded senses
(measured from records)Klau is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Latvian, look here!
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In cjm, three
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In kmb, Cortiço
as a wordDiccionario Portuguez-Kimbundu
In Latvian, lieto, lai aicinātu kādu ieklausīties, pievērst (kam) uzmanību
as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
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)- Betty Adlerb. 1854CZnot in their usual nameholocaust victim, b. 1854-07-05
- Regina Klaub. 1860CZholocaust victim, b. 1860-11-17
- Lina Klaub. 1867CZHolocaust victim (born 1867)
- Berta Klaub. 1873CZHolocaust victim (born 1873)
- Siegmund Klaub. 1890RUBaltic German politician and journalist (1890-1941)
- Luise Stahlb. 1890DEnot in their usual nameHolocaust victim (born 1890)
- Ralf Klaub. 1964DEGerman association football player
- Steffen Klaub. 1965DEGerman ice hockey player and referee
- Gunnar W KlauDEresearcher
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)10 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 5 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 113 | #146,201 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 110 | #139,757 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 106 | #152,339 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 24 | #173,031 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 5 | #101,952 |
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 3 | #123,677 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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 Klau mean, and where does it come from?
- theft Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Klau?
- It depends on the language: in Indonesian /klˈa͡ʊ/; in German /klaʊ̯/ (Wiktionary). Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- In which country does Klau have the most bearers?
- Klau is most frequently recorded in the United States.
What do you want to know about Klau?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/klauThe 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, “Klau”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.