Klett
surname · Latin script
Meaning: 1. topographic name from Bavarian dialect glet ‘smallholding’ (a word of Slavic origin) (Dictionary of American Family Names)
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 12 countries · latest register: dane.gov.pl, 2026
/klet̪t/(machine-generated) Spanish · model-generated
Klett is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country: 1,203 people, counted by the Census Bureau in 2010. Klett is also written Κλεττ in Greek.
- NONorway1 in 46K(measured from records)
- UYUruguay1 in 121K
- CHSwitzerland1 in 145K
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. 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.
- United States (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 1 (measured from records)
- 1 in 46K (inferred from the name graph)
1,203 people, 2010
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: reference-verified
Norway
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Klett in other scripts: Greek
(measured from records)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.
How to pronounce Klett
- Spanish:/klet̪t/(machine-generated) model-generated
Readings marked model-generated were transcribed by a model; the others are quoted from the dictionary named.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)1. topographic name from Bavarian dialect glet ‘smallholding’ (a word of Slavic origin). 2. variant of Klette.
Cited for this meaning 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Klett is found
(measured from records)Klett 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 1,203 | 1 in 277K | 1.3K | — |
| NO Norway | 118 | 1 in 46K | 118 | — |
| ES Spain | 96 | 1 in 521K | 96 | — |
| CH Switzerland | 58 | 1 in 145K | 58 | — |
| PL Poland | 58 | 1 in 660K | 33 | — |
| UY Uruguay | 28 | 1 in 121K | 28 | — |
| DK Denmark | 13 | 1 in 451K | 13 | — |
1,203 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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 — Surname Frequency 2020; SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts). 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)Klett is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In German, from Klett(e) 'burdock'; also from glet
as a nameDeutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung
In Luxembourgish, burdock
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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)- Richard Klettb. 1867DEGerman veterinarian
- Arnulf Klettb. 1905DEGerman mayor (1905-1974)
- Mark Klettb. 1952USAmerican photographer (born 1952)
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)22 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 12 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- Where does the name Klett come from?
- 1. topographic name from Bavarian dialect glet ‘smallholding’ (a word of Slavic origin). 2. variant of Klette. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- How do you pronounce Klett?
- In Spanish /klet̪t/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- What does the name Klett mean?
- Recorded meaning: 1. topographic name from Bavarian dialect glet ‘smallholding’ (a word of Slavic origin).
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Klett?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 1.2 thousand people named Klett, more than in any other country we hold. After it come Norway, Spain, Switzerland and Poland; the country table on this page ranks them.
- Where is Klett most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Klett is densest in Norway — about 1 in 46 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Klett?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,203 people named Klett in 2010, about 1 in 277 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/klettThe 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, “Klett” — ranked 19759th in the United States (Census Bureau). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.