Klāvs
given name · Latin script
Meaning: no koka darināts spīļveida priekšmets ūdu glabāšanai; uz šāda priekšmeta uztīta ūda
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Klāvs is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Latvia than in any other country.
- LVLatvia1 in 1.4K(measured from records)
- DKDenmark1 in 13K
- ISIceland1 in 70K
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Latvia (measured from records)
- Sources
- 36 (measured from records)
- 1 in 1.4K (inferred from the name graph)
1,302 people
Highest-authority source
Latvia
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Klavs in LV Latvia, DK Denmark.
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)
no koka darināts spīļveida priekšmets ūdu glabāšanai; uz šāda priekšmeta uztīta ūda
Sources 1
- Tēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
Attested across 18 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Klāvs 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.
1,302 people counted by PMLP — Personu vārdi (given names in population register), counting the spelling klāvs. 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: PMLP — Personu vārdi (given names in population register); PMLP — Personvārdu meklētājs (per-name population-register lookup); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names); Þjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry). 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)
Klāvs 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 Latvian, Kūts (Latgalē un Augšzemē)
as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
In Latvian, Vīrieša vārds
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)
- Klāvs Lorencsb. 1885LVSoviet politician (1885-1971)
- Klāvs Elsbergsb. 1959LVLatvian writer (1959-1987)
- Klāvs Olšteinsb. 1983LVLatvian politician
- Klāvs Čavarsb. 1996LVLatvian basketball player (born 1996)
- Klāvs Bāliņšb. 1996LVassociation football player
- Klāvs Bethersb. 2003LVLatvian footballer
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)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 6 sources across 3 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| LV Latvia | PMLP — Personvārdu meklētājs (per-name population-register lookup) | — | 1.3K | #355 |
| LV Latvia | PMLP — Personu vārdi (given names in population register) | — | 1.3K | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 6 | #14,303 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20) | 2026 | 6 | #15,336 |
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 are other forms of the name Klāvs?
- In the etymology graph, Nick, Klaus and Nico are forms of the same name in other languages.
- Is Klāvs a male or female name?
- Klāvs is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- What does the name Klāvs mean?
- Recorded meaning: no koka darināts spīļveida priekšmets ūdu glabāšanai; uz šāda priekšmeta uztīta ūda
- In which country does Klāvs have the most bearers?
- In Latvia, the national register counted about 1.3 thousand people named Klāvs, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled klavs.
- Where is Klāvs most common?
- Klāvs is densest in Latvia, where the national register counts about 1 in 1.4 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Klāvs?
- In Latvia, the national register counted 1,302 people named Klāvs, about 1 in 1.4 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Klāvs?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/kl%C4%81vsThe 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, “Klāvs”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.