How common is the surname Kline?

45,390 people in the United States had the surname Kline in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 6,802 Americans. It ranked 761st of 162,253 surnames.

What ethnicity is the surname Kline?

In the 2010 Census, 94% of people named Kline identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.0% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

Who is the most famous person named Kline?

Kevin Kline, American actor (born 1947), followed by Franz Kline.

Where is the surname Kline most common?

Wikidata records people named Kline in the United States.

Is the surname Kline getting more or less common?

More common. 44,900 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 45,390 in 2010, up 1.1%.

The surname Kline

A German surname, carried by 45,390 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). Kline is more common than 99.5% of them.

Origin

German origin

A surname from German anglicized from German Klein.

One of 1,101 German surnames on this site.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 45,390 people named Kline in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 6,802 Americans. That is up 1.1% since 2000, when the Census counted 44,900.

#761

rank among US surnames

45,390

people in 2010

per 100,000 Americans

+1.1%

change since 2000 (was #694)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#752	Shannon	46,147	6,690
#753	Kemp	46,146	6,691
#754	Nolan	46,054	6,704
#755	McCullough	45,852	6,734
#756	Merritt	45,594	6,772
#757	Murillo	45,558	6,777
#758	Moon	45,528	6,781

Who is named Kline

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

94% of people named Kline identified as white (not Hispanic), 2.0% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 1.6% as Black (not Hispanic).

White (not Hispanic) 94%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.0%
Black (not Hispanic) 1.6%
Two or more races 1.3%
Asian and Pacific Islander 0.5%
American Indian and Alaska Native 0.3%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Famous Klines

14 notable people on Wikidata, most written-about first

Kevin Kline
American actor (born 1947)
Franz Kline
American painter (1910-1962)
Morris Kline
American mathematician, teacher and author (1908–1992)
John Kline
American politician, born 1947
Richard Kline
American actor and director, born 1944
Richard H. Kline
American cinematographer (1926-2018)
Owen Kline
American actor, born 1991
Ardolph L. Kline
American politician (1858–1930)
Greta Kline
American musician, born 1994
Kelly Kline
American pornographic actress and film director, born 1981
Otis Adelbert Kline
American science fiction writer (1891–1946)
Nathan S. Kline
American psychiatrist, 1916–1983

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Kline

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

Other German surnames

All 1,101 German surnames

Questions

Where does the surname Kline come from?: Kline is German in origin.
How common is the surname Kline?: 45,390 people in the United States had the surname Kline in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 6,802 Americans. It ranked 761st of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Kline?: In the 2010 Census, 94% of people named Kline identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.0% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
Who is the most famous person named Kline?: Kevin Kline, American actor (born 1947), followed by Franz Kline.
Where is the surname Kline most common?: Wikidata records people named Kline in the United States.
Is the surname Kline getting more or less common?: More common. 44,900 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 45,390 in 2010, up 1.1%.