Kleister
surname · Latin script
Meaning: adhesive paste
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ˈkɫaɪstɝ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Kleister is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Poland than in any other country.
- DKDenmark1 in 245K(measured from records)
- PLPoland1 in 798K
- CHSwitzerland1 in 2.1M
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 Kleister 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.
- Poland (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 38 (measured from records)
- 1 in 245K (inferred from the name graph)
48 people, 2026
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Denmark
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Клейстер in RU Russia, UA Ukraine, KZ Kazakhstan.
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(measured from records)
adhesive paste
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Kleister 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PL Poland | 48 | 1 in 798K | 26 | — | — |
| RU Russia | ≈26 est. | ≈1 in 5.4M | — | Клейстер | 38 |
| DK Denmark | 24 | 1 in 245K | 24 | — | — |
| KZ Kazakhstan | ≈16 est. | ≈1 in 1.2M | — | Клейстер | 9 |
| UA Ukraine | ≈15 est. | ≈1 in 3M | — | Клейстер | 9 |
| CH Switzerland | 4 | 1 in 2.1M | 4 | — | — |
48 people counted by dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames), 2026. 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: dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames). 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).
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 6 sources across 4 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 26 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 26 | #76,489 |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 24 | #20,241 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 22 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 22 | #84,596 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 4 | #118,617 |
Reference works 1
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
- What does the name Kleister mean, and where does it come from?
- adhesive paste Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- What are other forms of the name Kleister?
- In the etymology graph, Clay is a form of the same name in other languages.
- How do you pronounce Kleister?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈkɫaɪstɝ/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Kleister have the most bearers?
- In Poland, the national register counted about 48 people named Kleister, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Kleister most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Kleister is densest in Denmark — about 1 in 245 thousand people — even though Poland holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Kleister?
- In Poland, the national register counted 48 people named Kleister in 2026, about 1 in 798 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/kleisterThe 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, “Kleister”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.