Klinke
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Toponymic surname from mhd
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/klɪŋkə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Klinke 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 1361.
Sources 1
- Deutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 4: Familiennamen nach Herkunft und Wohnstätte
Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Recorded in:
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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)
Klinke is also recorded in 5 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-/klink-; bearer count 1361.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 4: Familiennamen nach Herkunft und Wohnstätte
In Danish, clinker (brick)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In German, door handle
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Dutch, singular present subjunctive of klinken
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Western Frisian, to sound
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)
- Carl Klinkeb. 1840DEPrussian soldier (1840–1864)
- Arthur Klinkeb. 1887DEGerman non-fiction writer (1887-1942)
- Hans Peter Klinkeb. 1908DEGerman architect
- Robert Klinkeb. 1960DEGerman diplomat
- Jeanette Klinkeb. 1970DEGerman badminton player
- René Klinkeb. 1970DEGerman badminton player
- Anna Klinkeb. 1996badminton player
- Harald Klinkeb. 2000DEGerman art historian and computer scientist
- Mads Klinkeb. 2000Danish cyclist
- Sandra Klinkeresearcher
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 19 sources across 10 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 434 | #48,628 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 408 | #48,567 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 399 | #55,517 |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 213 | #2,337 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 144 | #47,933 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 115 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 115 | #26,750 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 96 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 96 | #30,552 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 46 | #19,892 |
| CZ Czechia | MVČR — living population register 2017 | — | 19 | #55,475 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 10 | #40,074 |
Reference works 5
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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 Klinke come from?
- Toponymic surname from mhd. klinge '(Sturz)bach; Schlucht' or related toponyms; bearer count 1361. Recorded by Deutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 4: Familiennamen nach Herkunft und Wohnstätte.
- How do you pronounce Klinke?
- A machine transcription gives /klɪŋkə/ (IPA) for German.
- What does the name Klinke mean?
- Recorded meaning: Toponymic surname from mhd.
- What are other forms of the name Klinke?
- In the etymology graph, Klink is a form of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Klinke have the most bearers?
- Klinke 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/klinkeThe 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, “Klinke”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.