Kloppers
surname · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 3 countries · latest register: CBG Familienamenbank, 2007
/klɔ.pərs/(machine-generated) Dutch · 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
- AUAustralia≈1 in 770Kfew records
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)
- Record sources
- 47 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 15K (inferred from the name graph)
≈4,400 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
South Africa, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
How to pronounce Kloppers
- Dutch:/klɔ.pərs/(machine-generated) model-generated
- Swahili:/kloppeɾs/(machine-generated) model-generated
Readings marked model-generated were transcribed by a model; the others are quoted from the dictionary named.
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Where the surname Kloppers is found
(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 | ≈4,400 est. | ≈1 in 15K | — | Kloppers | 47 |
| NL Netherlands | 331 | 1 in 52K | 331 | Kloppers | 26 |
| ZW Zimbabwe | ≈95 est. | ≈1 in 175K | — | Kloppers | 5 |
| AU Australia | ≈36 est. | ≈1 in 765K | — | Kloppers | 28 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈29 est. | ≈1 in 2.4M | — | Kloppers | 37 |
| NZ New Zealand | ≈18 est. | ≈1 in 299K | — | 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)- Jacobus Kloppersb. 1937ZACanadian composer, musicologist and organist
- Marius Kloppersb. 1962ZACEO of BHP Billiton
- Zenobia Kloppersb. 1974South African actress and singer
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)6 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 3 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- How do you pronounce Kloppers?
- It depends on the language: in Dutch /klɔ.pərs/; in Swahili /kloppeɾs/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Kloppers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 4.4 thousand people named Kloppers in South Africa, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled kloppers. After it come Netherlands, Zimbabwe, Australia and United Kingdom; the country table on this page ranks them.
- 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.
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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 2026-10-13.