Klaey
surname · Latin script
Klaey is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Switzerland than in any other country.
- CHSwitzerland1 in 9.3Kas Kläy(measured from records)
- DEGermany≈1 in 420Kfew recordsas Klay
- CACanada≈1 in 580Kfew recordsas Klay
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 Klaey itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Switzerland (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 191 (measured from records)
- 1 in 9.3K (inferred from the name graph)
904 named Kläy, 2024
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Switzerland, as Kläy
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Klaey in other scripts: Latin
(measured from records)Locally spelled Klay in US United States, CH Switzerland, DE Germany and 3 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 the surname Klaey is found
(measured from records)Klaey 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CH Switzerland | 904as Kläy | 1 in 9.3K | 904 | Klay | 25 |
| TN Tunisia | ≈510 est. | ≈1 in 24K | — | Klay | 6 |
| US United States | 409as Klay | 1 in 813K | 1.1K | Klay | 191 |
| DE Germany | ≈200 est. | ≈1 in 420K | — | Klay | 43 |
| BR Brazil | 116as Klay | 1 in 1.8M | 116 | — | 1 |
| CA Canada | ≈71 est. | ≈1 in 582K | 3 | Klay | 32 |
| JM Jamaica | ≈22 est. | ≈1 in 127K | — | Klay | 1 |
904 people counted by BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames), 2024, counting the spelling kläy. 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; Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); Alberta Open Government — Frequency and Ranking of Baby Names by Year and Gender; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname). 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)No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Klaey?
- In Switzerland, the national register counted about 904 people named Kläy, more than in any other country we hold. After it come Tunisia, United States, Germany and Brazil; the country table on this page ranks them.
- Where is Klaey most common?
- No national register we hold counts the spelling Klaey itself. The densest figure for its family of spellings is Switzerland's: the national register counts about 1 in 9.3 thousand people named Kläy.
- How common is the name Klaey?
- In Switzerland, the national register counted 904 people named Kläy in 2024, about 1 in 9.3 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/klaeyThe 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, “Klaey” — ranked 1326th in Switzerland (BFS, 2024). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.