Klomp
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in English: A Dutch wooden clog
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/ˈkɫɑmp/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Klomp is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the Netherlands than in any other country.
- NLNetherlands1 in 3.3K(measured from records)
- USUnited States1 in 675K
- BEBelgium1 in 156K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Netherlands (measured from records)
- Sources
- 161 (measured from records)
- 1 in 3.3K (inferred from the name graph)
5,243 people, 2007
Highest-authority source
Netherlands
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
1. nickname for a burly, stockily-built person, from Middle Dutch clomp ‘lump’, ‘block’. 2. metonymic occupational name for a clog maker, from klomp ‘clog’.
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.
How Klomp is read(measured from records)
Klomp is one spelling over 3 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- English50%
A Dutch wooden clog.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Dutch31%
1. nickname for a burly, stockily-built person, from Middle Dutch clomp ‘lump’, ‘block’. 2. metonymic occupational name for a clog maker, from klomp ‘clog’.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
a wooden shoe, clog
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- German7.6%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Klomp in German.
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Klomp counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NL Netherlands | #290 | 5,243 | 1 in 3.3K | 5.2K | Klomp | 81 |
| US United States | — | 493 | 1 in 675K | 498 | Klomp | 161 |
| DE Germany | — | ≈340 est. | ≈1 in 233K | — | Klomp | 56 |
| AU Australia | — | ≈150 est. | ≈1 in 172K | — | Klomp | 60 |
| ZA South Africa | — | ≈110 est. | ≈1 in 496K | — | Klomp | 7 |
| BE Belgium | — | 75 | 1 in 156K | 75 | Klomp | 14 |
| NZ New Zealand | — | ≈25 est. | ≈1 in 200K | — | Klomp | 13 |
5,243 people counted by CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007), 2007. 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: CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; 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)
Klomp is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Afrikaans, Wooden shoe, clog.
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)
- Albert Jansz. Klompb. 1625NLDutch painter (1625–1688)
- Johannes Franziskus Klompb. 1865NLGerman architect (1865-1946)
- Rudy Klompb. 1941NLDutch painter (born 1941)
- Ulla Klompb. 1945DEGerman author
- Carsten Klompb. 1965DEGerman composer
- René Klompb. 1974NLDutch footballer
- Matthijs Klompb. 1976SEresearcher
- Daan Klompb. 1998NLassociation football player
- Bart Klompb. 1999NLDutch male curler
- Nicholas KlompGBuniversity vice-chancellor
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 17 sources across 8 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| NL Netherlands | CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007) | 2007 | 5.2K | #150 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 498 | #46,181 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 493 | #43,732 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 450 | #44,895 |
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 75 | #19,453 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 4
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
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
- Where does the name Klomp come from?
- 1. nickname for a burly, stockily-built person, from Middle Dutch clomp ‘lump’, ‘block’. 2. metonymic occupational name for a clog maker, from klomp ‘clog’. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- What are other forms of the name Klomp?
- In the etymology graph, Klumpen is a form of the same name in other languages.
- How do you pronounce Klomp?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈkɫɑmp/ (IPA) for English.
- What does the name Klomp mean?
- In English, A Dutch wooden clog.
- In which country does Klomp have the most bearers?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted about 5.2 thousand people named Klomp, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled klomp.
- Where is Klomp most common?
- Klomp is densest in the Netherlands, where the national register counts about 1 in 3.3 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Klomp?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted 5,243 people named Klomp in 2007, about 1 in 3.3 thousand residents.
- How common is Klomp compared with other names?
- In the Netherlands, Klomp is the 290th most common surname of 284,143 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/klompThe 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, “Klomp” — the 290th most common surname in Netherlands. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.