Kloppers
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/kɫɑpɝz/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Kloppers is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in South Africa than in any other country.
- ZASouth Africa≈1 in 15K(inferred from the name graph)
- NLNetherlands1 in 52K
- ZWZimbabwe≈1 in 88K
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.
- South Africa (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 47 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 15K (inferred from the name graph)
≈3,800 people, est.
Highest-authority source
South Africa, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Kloppers 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ZA South Africa | ≈3,800 est. | ≈1 in 15K | — | Kloppers | 47 |
| NL Netherlands | 331 | 1 in 52K | 331 | Kloppers | 26 |
| ZW Zimbabwe | ≈160 est. | ≈1 in 88K | — | Kloppers | 5 |
| AU Australia | ≈38 est. | ≈1 in 677K | — | Kloppers | 28 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈30 est. | ≈1 in 2.2M | — | Kloppers | 37 |
| NZ New Zealand | ≈20 est. | ≈1 in 251K | — | Kloppers | 13 |
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). 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)
- Richardene Kloppersb. 1926NANamibian teacher
- Jacobus Kloppersb. 1937ZACanadian composer, musicologist and organist
- Neville Kloppersb. 1961rugby player
- Marius Kloppersb. 1962ZACEO of BHP Billiton
- Tyrone Kloppersb. 1969NAbadminton player
- Zenobia Kloppersb. 1974South African actress and singer
- Hugo Kloppersb. 1988ZASouth African rugby union footballer
- Junita Kloppers-LourensZASouth African politician and educator
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 6 sources across 3 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| NL Netherlands | CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007) | 2007 | 331 | #6,164 |
Reference works 3
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- 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
- How do you pronounce Kloppers?
- A machine transcription gives /kɫɑpɝz/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Kloppers have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 3.8 thousand people named Kloppers in South Africa, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled kloppers.
- How common is the name Kloppers?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted 331 people named Kloppers in 2007, about 1 in 52 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Kloppers?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/kloppersThe 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, “Kloppers”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.