How common is the surname Klemp?

1,126 people in the United States had the surname Klemp in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 274,197 Americans. It ranked 22,749th of 162,253 surnames.

What ethnicity is the surname Klemp?

In the 2010 Census, 96% of people named Klemp identified as white (not Hispanic), and 1.6% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

Is the surname Klemp getting more or less common?

About as common. 1,126 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,126 in 2010, a change of 0.0%.

The surname Klemp

A surname, carried by 1,126 people in the United States.

1 syllable Soundex K451

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Klemp is more common than 86% of them.

Origin

A surname.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 1,126 people named Klemp in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 274,197 Americans. That is about the same as in 2000, when the Census counted 1,126.

#22,749

rank among US surnames

1,126

people in 2010

0.4

per 100,000 Americans

change since 2000 (was #21,590)

Who is named Klemp

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

96% of people named Klemp identified as white (not Hispanic), 1.6% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 1.1% as two or more races.

White (not Hispanic) 96%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.6%
Two or more races 1.1%
Asian and Pacific Islander 0.6%

The Census suppresses very small shares to protect privacy; Black, Native American are not shown.

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Klemp

Klemp has the Soundex code K451, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code K451.

Questions

How common is the surname Klemp?: 1,126 people in the United States had the surname Klemp in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 274,197 Americans. It ranked 22,749th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Klemp?: In the 2010 Census, 96% of people named Klemp identified as white (not Hispanic), and 1.6% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
Is the surname Klemp getting more or less common?: About as common. 1,126 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,126 in 2010, a change of 0.0%.