Klaf

surname · Latin script

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Klaf is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • USUnited States1 in 36Kas Clough(measured from records)
  • NONorway1 in 210Kas Clough
  • SESweden1 in 729Kas Clough

carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Klaf 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)

9,339 named Clough, 2010

2 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
13 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 36K (inferred from the name graph)

United States, as Clough

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

CloughLatin(measured from records)
КлафCyrillic(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Clough in US United States.

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

No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Klaf 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.

Where Klaf is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States9,339as Clough1 in 36K9.3KClough12
ES Spain56as Clough1 in 893K56——
NO Norway26as Clough1 in 210K26——
BR Brazil26as Klu1 in 8.1M26——
SE Sweden14as Clough1 in 729K14——
BE Belgium10as Clough1 in 1.2M10——

9,339 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: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Klaf is also recorded as another name, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Hebrew surname5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Israel, United States, Bulgaria, South Africa

    Also written קלף, Calaf, Kalaf, Clef

29 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 3 sources across 2 countries.

Official registers attesting Klaf
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United Stateswru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.)———

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

Frequently asked questions

In which country does Klaf have the most bearers?
In the United States, the national register counted about 9.3 thousand people named Clough, more than in any other country we hold.
Where is Klaf most common?
No national register we hold counts the spelling Klaf itself. The densest figure for its family of spellings is United States's: the national register counts about 1 in 36 thousand people named Clough.
How common is the name Klaf?
In the United States, the national register counted 9,339 people named Clough in 2010, about 1 in 36 thousand residents.

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The 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, “Klaf”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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