Kluck
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Kluck is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: 1. variant of Gluck. 2.
- DEGermany≈1 in 53K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 181K
- GHGhana≈1 in 76K
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.
- United States (measured from records)
- Sources
- 234 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 53K (inferred from the name graph)
1,837 people, 2010
Highest-authority source
Germany, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
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)
1. variant of Gluck. 2. Germanized form of Czech Kluk, a nickname meaning ‘lad’, ‘boy’, in German also having the sense ‘rogue’.
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Where in the world(measured from records)
Kluck 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 1,837 | 1 in 181K | 1.9K | Kluck | 234 |
| DE Germany | ≈1,500 est. | ≈1 in 53K | — | Kluck | 81 |
| GH Ghana | ≈390 est. | ≈1 in 76K | — | Kluck | 3 |
| BR Brazil | 335 | 1 in 632K | 335 | — | — |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈170 est. | ≈1 in 396K | — | Kluck | 20 |
| NL Netherlands | 161 | 1 in 107K | 161 | Kluck | 23 |
| SG Singapore | ≈80 est. | ≈1 in 78K | — | Kluck | 1 |
1,837 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); 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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Kluck is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Swedish, cluck (the sound made by hens)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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)
- Alexander von Kluckb. 1846DEGerman general (1846-1934)
- Oliver Kluckb. 1980DEGerman writer
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 19 sources across 11 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 1.9K | #14,539 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 1.8K | #15,845 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 1.8K | #15,592 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 335 | #24,150 |
| NL Netherlands | CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007) | 2007 | 161 | #12,773 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 4
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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
- Where does the name Kluck come from?
- 1. variant of Gluck. 2. Germanized form of Czech Kluk, a nickname meaning ‘lad’, ‘boy’, in German also having the sense ‘rogue’. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- What does the name Kluck mean?
- Recorded meaning: 1. variant of Gluck. 2.
- In which country does Kluck have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 1.8 thousand people named Kluck, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled kluck.
- How common is the name Kluck?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,837 people named Kluck in 2010, about 1 in 181 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/kluckThe 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, “Kluck”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.