Klop
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Klop is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the Netherlands than in any other country. Recorded meaning: a knock, an audible blow.
- NLNetherlands1 in 7.2K(measured from records)
- BEBelgium1 in 510K
- FRFrance≈1 in 1.2M
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 Klop 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
- 65 (measured from records)
- 1 in 7.2K (inferred from the name graph)
2,384 people, 2007
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Netherlands
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Kloep in US United States, DE Germany, Кльоп in UA Ukraine and Клоп in BY Belarus.
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)
a knock, an audible blow
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Klop 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 | 2,384 | 1 in 7.2K | 2.4K | Klop | 56 |
| DE Germany | ≈210 est. | ≈1 in 387K | — | Kloep | 43 |
| US United States | 133 | 1 in 2.5M | 137 | Kloep | 39 |
| UA Ukraine | ≈68 est. | ≈1 in 644K | — | Кльоп | 19 |
| FR France | ≈58 est. | ≈1 in 1.2M | 12 | Klop | 65 |
| BY Belarus | ≈27 est. | ≈1 in 355K | — | Клоп | 5 |
| BE Belgium | 23 | 1 in 510K | 23 | Klop | 7 |
2,384 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 2000; INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register). 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)
Klop 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 Polish, crapper (lavatory)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In vo, harvest
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Slovenian, bench
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Serbo-Croatian, »ixodes ricinus, sinonimi: čepela, krpelj, krpuša«
as a wordSkok, Etimologijski rječnik hrvatskoga ili srpskoga jezika (1971-74)
In Latvian, lieto (parasti atkārtojumā), laiatdarinātu troksni, kas rodas (dzīvniekam, parasti cūkai) strauji rijot ēdienu
as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
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)
- Dirk Klopb. 1906NLDutch army intelligence officer (1906–1939)
- Liesbeth Klopb. 1940NLDutch creator
- Kees Klopb. 1947NLDutch academic
- Jean Klopb. 1951FRFrench politician
- Carl Friedmanb. 1952NLnot in their usual nameDutch writer and columnist (1952–2020)
- Nola Klopb. 1995NLBilingual Dutch voice actress
- Kira E KlopGBresearcher
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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 15 sources across 7 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| NL Netherlands | CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007) | 2007 | 2.4K | #484 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 137 | #117,538 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 134 | #131,805 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 133 | #128,249 |
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 23 | #43,780 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1931 | 17 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 12 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1901 | 11 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 8 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1921 | 8 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1911 | 7 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1891 | 7 | — |
Reference works 4
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- 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
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 Klop mean, and where does it come from?
- a knock, an audible blow Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- In which country does Klop have the most bearers?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted about 2.4 thousand people named Klop, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled klop.
- Where is Klop most common?
- Klop is densest in the Netherlands, where the national register counts about 1 in 7.2 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Klop?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted 2,384 people named Klop in 2007, about 1 in 7.2 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Klop?
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Query this name via API
curl https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/klopThe same payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. Rate-limited for casual use; a free API key gives 1,000 requests a day, and bulk access is licensed separately.
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, “Klop”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.