Klepac
surname · Latin script
Meaning: a nickname from klepati ‘to beat or sharpen with a hammer’, in a figurative sense probably denoting a talkative person (Dictionary of American Family Names)
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 6 countries · latest register: DZS, 2021
Klepac is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Pakistan than in any other country.
- HRCroatia1 in 9.4K(measured from records)
- SISlovenia1 in 21K
- CZCzechia1 in 57K
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.
- Pakistan (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 147 (measured from records)
- 1 in 9.4K (inferred from the name graph)
≈2,100 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Croatia
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)a nickname from klepati ‘to beat or sharpen with a hammer’, in a figurative sense probably denoting a talkative person.
Cited for this meaning 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested across 11 languages in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Klepac is found
(measured from records)Klepac 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.
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; DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form); MVČR — living population register 2017; stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank); JÚĽŠ SAV — Databáza priezvisk na Slovensku (surname database, 1995 census). 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)Klepac is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
from klepac ‘small water mill’, a derivative of klepat ‘to tap’.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
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)- Dušan Klepacb. 1917HRCroatian forestry engineer (1917-2006)
- Nika Klepacb. 2002HRCroatian taekwondo practitioner
- Petra KlepacSIresearcher
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)15 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 6 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Klepac mean, and where does it come from?
- a nickname from klepati ‘to beat or sharpen with a hammer’, in a figurative sense probably denoting a talkative person. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Klepac?
- Mondonomo estimates about 2.1 thousand people named Klepac in Pakistan, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled klepac. After it come United States, Croatia, Czechia and Slovenia; the country table on this page ranks them.
- Where is Klepac most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Klepac is densest in Croatia — about 1 in 9.4 thousand people — even though Pakistan holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Klepac?
- In the United States, the national register counted 492 people named Klepac in 2010, about 1 in 676 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/klepacThe 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, “Klepac”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.