How common is the surname Klemm?

2,982 people in the United States had the surname Klemm in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 103,536 Americans. It ranked 10,715th of 162,253 surnames.

What ethnicity is the surname Klemm?

In the 2010 Census, 95% of people named Klemm identified as white (not Hispanic), and 1.8% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

Is the surname Klemm getting more or less common?

More common. 2,974 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 2,982 in 2010, up 0.3%.

The surname Klemm

A surname, carried by 2,982 people in the United States.

1 syllable Soundex K450

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Klemm is more common than 93.4% of them.

Origin

A surname.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 2,982 people named Klemm in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 103,536 Americans. That is about the same as in 2000, when the Census counted 2,974.

#10,715

rank among US surnames

2,982

people in 2010

1.0

per 100,000 Americans

+0.3%

change since 2000 (was #9,998)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#10,706	Wardlow	2,985	103,432
#10,708	Ricard	2,984	103,467
#10,711	Shute	2,983	103,502
#10,715	Reading	2,982	103,536
#10,717	Nicoletti	2,981	103,571
#10,721	Mager	2,980	103,606
#10,724	Chidester	2,979	103,641

Who is named Klemm

Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census

95% of people named Klemm identified as white (not Hispanic), 1.8% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 1.5% as two or more races.

White (not Hispanic) 95%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.8%
Two or more races 1.5%
Asian and Pacific Islander 0.6%
Black (not Hispanic) 0.4%
American Indian and Alaska Native 0.4%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Klemm

Klemm has the Soundex code K450, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code K450.

Questions

How common is the surname Klemm?: 2,982 people in the United States had the surname Klemm in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 103,536 Americans. It ranked 10,715th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Klemm?: In the 2010 Census, 95% of people named Klemm identified as white (not Hispanic), and 1.8% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
Is the surname Klemm getting more or less common?: More common. 2,974 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 2,982 in 2010, up 0.3%.