Claußen
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Variante der Claus-/Klaus-Namen mit -sen/-en im schwachen Genitiv; die Karte zeigt regionale Schreib- und Lautvarianten des patronymischen Typs
/klaʊ̯sn̩/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Claußen is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- DEGermany≈1 in 41K(inferred from the name graph)
- NONorway1 in 8.4Kas Claussen
- DKDenmark1 in 64Kas Claussen
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Claußen itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Sources
- 130 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 41K (inferred from the name graph)
3,457 named Claussen, 2010
Highest-authority source
Germany, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Claussen in DE Germany, US United States, NO Norway and 1 more.
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)
Variante der Claus-/Klaus-Namen mit -sen/-en im schwachen Genitiv; die Karte zeigt regionale Schreib- und Lautvarianten des patronymischen Typs.
Sources 1
- Deutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 3: Morphologie der Familiennamen
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Claußen 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 3,457as Claussen | 1 in 96K | 3.5K | Claussen | 104 |
| DE Germany | ≈1,900 est. | ≈1 in 41K | listed | Claussen | 130 |
| NO Norway | 654as Claussen | 1 in 8.4K | 654 | Claussen | 9 |
| BR Brazil | 315as Claussen | 1 in 672K | 315 | — | — |
| DK Denmark | 91as Claussen | 1 in 64K | 91 | — | — |
| SE Sweden | 43as Claussen | 1 in 237K | 43 | Claussen | 6 |
3,457 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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: the dfa-band-3 register; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population). 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)
Claußen 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 German, Zu Nikolaus; zeigt Genitiv oder Ableitung mit -sen, besonders norddeutsch. Bearer count: 2020.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 3: Morphologie der Familiennamen
In German, Schwaches Genitiv-Patronymikum; Schreibvarianten mit -ßen/-ssen. 2020 Belege.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 3: Morphologie der Familiennamen
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)
- Wilhelm Claussenb. 1844DEGerman composer
- Bruno Claußenb. 1880DEGerman librarian (1880-1958)
- Bruno Claußenb. 1884DEGerman lawyer, civil servant and business executive
- Heinz-Helmut Claußenb. 1928DEGerman educationist and sports official
- Dieter Claußenb. 1936DEGerman politician (1936-2012)
- Bruno Claußenb. 1946DEGerman politician
- Bernhard Claußenb. 1948DEGerman educationist and sociologist
- Sina ClaußenDEGerman association football player
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 6 sources across 3 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| DE Germany | Deutscher Familiennamenatlas Band 3 | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- 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
- How do you pronounce Claußen?
- A machine transcription gives /klaʊ̯sn̩/ (IPA) for German.
- What does the name Claußen mean?
- Recorded meaning: Variante der Claus-/Klaus-Namen mit -sen/-en im schwachen Genitiv; die Karte zeigt regionale Schreib- und Lautvarianten des patronymischen Typs.
- In which country does Claußen have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 3.5 thousand people named Claussen, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Claußen?
- In the United States, the national register counted 3,457 people named Claussen in 2010, about 1 in 96 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/clau%C3%9FenThe 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, “Claußen”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.