Klever
given name · Latin script
Meaning: from Klee or from Cleve; also possibly from mhd
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/klebeɾ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Klever is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Ecuador than in any other country.
- ECEcuador1 in 1K(measured from records)
- PEPeru≈1 in 39K
- USUnited States1 in 550K
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.
- Ecuador (measured from records)
- Sources
- 142 (measured from records)
- 1 in 1.0K (inferred from the name graph)
16,278 people, 2024
Highest-authority source
Ecuador
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
from Klee or from Cleve; also possibly from mhd. klewen 'to whine'
Sources 1
- Deutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Klever 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| EC Ecuador | #253 | 16,278 | 1 in 1K | 16K | Klever | 44 |
| PE Peru | — | ≈810 est. | ≈1 in 39K | — | Klever | 36 |
| US United States | — | 605 | 1 in 550K | 601 | Klever | 142 |
| ES Spain | — | ≈490 est. | ≈1 in 102K | 6 | Klever | 48 |
| BR Brazil | — | 438 | 1 in 483K | 438 | Klever | 51 |
| BO Bolivia | — | ≈140 est. | ≈1 in 81K | — | Klever | 10 |
| CR Costa Rica | — | 56 | 1 in 91K | 56 | Klever | 9 |
16,278 people counted by INEC — civil registry names, 2024. 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: INEC — civil registry names; Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names. 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)
Klever 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 Dutch, someone or something that sticks, adheres
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In German, native or inhabitant of Cleves
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)
- Jorge Andyb. 1998ECnot in their usual nameEcuadorian wrestler
- Iván ChávezPEnot in their usual namePeruvian doctor
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 33 sources across 19 countries.
Reference works 3
- 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)
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 Klever come from?
- from Klee or from Cleve; also possibly from mhd. klewen 'to whine' Recorded by Deutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung.
- How do you pronounce Klever?
- A machine transcription gives /klebeɾ/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- What does the name Klever mean?
- Recorded meaning: from Klee or from Cleve; also possibly from mhd.
- Is Klever a male or female name?
- Klever 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.
- In which country does Klever have the most bearers?
- In Ecuador, the national register counted about 16 thousand people named Klever, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled klever.
- Where is Klever most common?
- Klever is densest in Ecuador, where the national register counts about 1 in 1.0 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Klever?
- In Ecuador, the national register counted 16,278 people named Klever in 2024, about 1 in 1.0 thousand residents.
- How common is Klever compared with other names?
- In Ecuador, Klever is the 253rd most common given name of 27,061 given names recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/kleverThe 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, “Klever” — the 253rd most common given name in Ecuador. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.