Klinge
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Toponymic surname from mhd
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ˈkɫɪndʒ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Klinge is a surname written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in the United States.
- DEGermany
- USUnited States
- DKDenmark
Where the name is found, darker where our sources hold more of it. No national register counts its bearers anywhere we hold data, so the map carries no figures. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Toponymic surname from mhd. klinge '(Sturz)bach; Schlucht' or related toponyms; bearer count 1376.
Sources 1
- Deutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 4: Familiennamen nach Herkunft und Wohnstätte
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Recorded in:
No national register we accept counts this name’s bearers, so the page lists where it is found and publishes no figure.
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)
Klinge is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In German, Toponymic surname from a place, dwelling, or landscape feature with kling-; bearer count 1376.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 4: Familiennamen nach Herkunft und Wohnstätte
In German, blade (of a weapon or tool)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Norwegian Nynorsk, a blade (e.g. of a sword)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Latvian, pilsēta Nīderlandē ("Clinge"), Zēlandes provincē, 2450 iedzīvotāju (2014. g.)
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)
- Johannes Christoph Klingeb. 1851SEBaltic German botanist (1851-1902)
- Erich Klingeb. 1889DEGerman educationist and university teacher (1889-1957)
- Friedrich Klingeb. 1892DEGerman pathologist and university teacher (1892-1974)
- Matti Klingeb. 1936FIFinnish historian and professor
- Bente Klingeb. 1965NONorwegian translator
- Eike Roswag-Klingeb. 1969DEGerman architect
- Jenny Klingeb. 1975NONorwegian politician
- Jana Klingeb. 1980DEGerman actress
- Manuel Klingeb. 1984DEGerman ice hockey player
- Margret KlingeDEart historian
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)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 32 sources across 17 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 884 | #27,331 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 852 | #29,518 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 829 | #27,386 |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 420 | #1,047 |
| NL Netherlands | CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007) | 2007 | 417 | #4,805 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 226 | #6,967 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 57 | #20,256 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 46 | #13,595 |
| BR Brazil | Brasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA) | — | 39 | #34,094 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Sukunimitilasto (Finnish surnames register) | — | 31 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 28 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 27 | #99,072 |
Reference works 6
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
- Søndergaard, Georg, Danske efternavne (Lademann 1984/1991)
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 Klinge come from?
- Toponymic surname from mhd. klinge '(Sturz)bach; Schlucht' or related toponyms; bearer count 1376. Recorded by Deutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 4: Familiennamen nach Herkunft und Wohnstätte.
- How do you pronounce Klinge?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈkɫɪndʒ/ (IPA) for English.
- What does the name Klinge mean?
- Recorded meaning: Toponymic surname from mhd.
- In which country does Klinge have the most bearers?
- Klinge is most frequently recorded in the United States.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/klingeThe 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, “Klinge”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.