Claaßens
surname · Latin script
Claaßens is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in South Africa than in any other country.
- ZASouth Africa≈1 in 15Kas Claassens(inferred from the name graph)
- DEGermany≈1 in 2.2M
- NLNetherlands1 in 21Kas Claassens
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 Claaßens 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.
- South Africa (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 55 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 2.2M (inferred from the name graph)
≈3,900 named Claassens, est.
Highest-authority source
Germany, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Claassens in ZA South Africa, NL Netherlands, AU Australia and 2 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
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Claaßens 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ZA South Africa | — | ≈3,900 est. | ≈1 in 15K | — | Claassens | 35 |
| NL Netherlands | — | 825as Claassens | 1 in 21K | 825 | Claassens | 39 |
| BE Belgium | — | 107as Claassens | 1 in 110K | 107 | Claassens | 12 |
| NA Namibia | #840 | ≈79 est. | ≈1 in 33K | — | Claassens | 6 |
| AU Australia | — | ≈61 est. | ≈1 in 416K | — | Claassens | 55 |
| DE Germany | — | ≈37 est. | ≈1 in 2.2M | — | Claaßens | 18 |
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); 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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 1 sources across 0 countries.
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
- In which country does Claaßens have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 3.9 thousand people named Claassens in South Africa, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Claaßens?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted 825 people named Claassens in 2007, about 1 in 21 thousand residents.
- How common is Claaßens compared with other names?
- In Namibia, Claaßens is the 840th most common surname of 968 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/claa%C3%9FensThe same 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), and bulk access is licensed separately.
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, “Claaßens” — the 840th most common surname in Namibia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.