Kloek
surname · Latin script
Meaning: large, stout
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/ˈkɫoʊk/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Kloek is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the Netherlands than in any other country.
- NLNetherlands1 in 4.7Kas Klok(measured from records)
- UAUkraine≈1 in 53Kas Клок
- RURussia≈1 in 275Kas Клок
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 Kloek 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.
- Netherlands (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 131 (measured from records)
- 1 in 4.7K (inferred from the name graph)
3,680 named Klok, 2007
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Netherlands, as Klok
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Клок in UA Ukraine, RU Russia, BY Belarus and Klok in NL Netherlands, US United States, EE Estonia.
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)
large, stout
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Kloek 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NL Netherlands | #355 | 3,680as Klok | 1 in 4.7K | 3.7K | Klok | 73 |
| UA Ukraine | — | ≈820 est. | ≈1 in 53K | — | Клок | 29 |
| RU Russia | — | ≈520 est. | ≈1 in 275K | — | Клок | 92 |
| US United States | — | 208as Klok | 1 in 1.6M | 234 | Klok | 131 |
| DK Denmark | — | 190as Klok | 1 in 31K | 190 | — | 1 |
| BY Belarus | — | ≈62 est. | ≈1 in 152K | — | Клок | 8 |
| EE Estonia | — | ≈16 est. | ≈1 in 78K | 8 | Klok | 6 |
3,680 people counted by CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007), 2007. 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: CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); Statistics Estonia — per-name Population Register counts (nimed). 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Mia Kloek-Piréeb. 1884NLDutch actress and writer (1884–1959)
- Jan Kloekb. 1912NLDutch Righteous Among the Nations
- Lutske Kloekb. 1913NLDutch Righteous Among the Nations
- Dolf Kloekb. 1916NLDutch writer and poet (1916-2012)
- Teun Kloekb. 1934NLDutch economist
- Elfriede Hillegonda "Frieda" Kloekb. 1939NLDutch basketball player (1939-)
- Joost Kloekb. 1943NLDutch literary scholar (1943–2022)
- W. Th. Kloekb. 1945NLDutch art historian, 1945-
- Els Kloekb. 1952NLDutch historian (born 1952)
- Tania Kloekb. 1973BEBelgian actress
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 7 sources across 5 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| NL Netherlands | CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007) | 2007 | 528 | #3,650 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
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 Kloek mean, and where does it come from?
- large, stout Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Kloek?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈkɫoʊk/ (IPA) for English.
- What are other forms of the name Kloek?
- In the etymology graph, Klug is a form of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Kloek have the most bearers?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted about 3.7 thousand people named Klok, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Kloek most common?
- No national register we hold counts the spelling Kloek itself. The densest figure for its family of spellings is Netherlands's: the national register counts about 1 in 4.7 thousand people named Klok.
- How common is the name Kloek?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted 3,680 people named Klok in 2007, about 1 in 4.7 thousand residents.
- How common is Kloek compared with other names?
- In the Netherlands, Kloek is the 355th most common surname of 284,143 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Kloek?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/kloekThe 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, “Kloek” — the 355th most common surname in Netherlands. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.