# Klaas (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/klaas/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | boys and girls |
| Origin | not recorded |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | not in the US data |
| Boys / girls in the US | not in the US data |
| Babies in England and Wales | not in the ONS data |

## People named Klaas

- Klaas Lodewyck, Belgian road cyclist
- Klaas Bakker, Dutch football player (1926-2016)
- Klaas, German DJ
- Klaas Nuninga, Dutch footballer
- Klaas Ooms, Dutch footballer (1917-1970)
- Klaas Carel Faber, Dutch collaborator (1922–2012)
- Klaas Dijkhoff, Dutch former politician
- Klaas-Erik Zwering, Dutch swimmer
- Klaas Balk, Dutch cyclist
- Klaas Vermeulen, Dutch field hockey player
- Klaas Veering, field hockey player
- Klaas Knot, Dutch economist (born 1967)

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.