Kloz

surname · Latin script

Meaning: Kloz is a given name to the Phorzheim area or of the Under Rhine district 1809

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

/kɫoʊz/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Kloz is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Czechia than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • CZCzechia1 in 44K(measured from records)
  • PLPoland1 in 890K
  • UAUkraine≈1 in 2.8M

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.

Czechia (measured from records)

241 people

2 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
23 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 44K (inferred from the name graph)

Czechia

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

KlozLatin(measured from records)
КлозCyrillic(measured from records)

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)

Kloz is a given name to the Phorzheim area or of the Under Rhine district 1809.

Sources 1

  • The Origin of Jewish Family Names: Morphology and History

Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Kloz 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.

Where Kloz is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
CZ Czechia2411 in 44K241Kloz23
PL Poland431 in 890K23Kloz5
US United States≈26 est.≈1 in 13Mlisted—2
UA Ukraine≈16 est.≈1 in 2.8M—Kloz4

241 people counted by MVČR — living population register 2017. 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: MVČR — living population register 2017; dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); the us-wru-surnames-voterfile 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Kloz is also recorded as another name, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English surname5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Germany

    Languages: English, German

    Also written Klöz, Kloez

12 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Kloz is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In German, z used for tz after short vowel in Swabian/Franconian spelling

    as a nameDeutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung

  • In Russian, var of Klots.

    as a wordA Dictionary of Period Russian Names (Wickenden / Goldschmidt 1996)

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)

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)

FormalDear Colleague,
InformalHello,

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 7 sources across 3 countries.

Official registers attesting Kloz
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
CZ CzechiaMVČR — living population register 2017—241#6,965
CZ CzechiaKdeJsme.cz — četnost jmen a příjmení (MVČR population register front-end)—241#5,069
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames)202623—
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names)—23#82,543
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames)202620—
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names)—20#89,631
US United Stateswru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.)———

Reference works 2

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 Kloz mean, and where does it come from?
Kloz is a given name to the Phorzheim area or of the Under Rhine district 1809. Recorded by The Origin of Jewish Family Names: Morphology and History.
How do you pronounce Kloz?
A machine transcription gives /kɫoʊz/ (IPA) for English.
In which country does Kloz have the most bearers?
In Czechia, the national register counted about 241 people named Kloz, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled kloz.
Where is Kloz most common?
Kloz is densest in Czechia, where the national register counts about 1 in 44 thousand people carrying it.
How common is the name Kloz?
In Czechia, the national register counted 241 people named Kloz, about 1 in 44 thousand residents.

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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, “Kloz”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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