How common is the surname Klopp?

2,073 people in the United States had the surname Klopp in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 148,937 Americans. It ranked 14,419th of 162,253 surnames.

What ethnicity is the surname Klopp?

In the 2010 Census, 96% of people named Klopp identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.2% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

Is the surname Klopp getting more or less common?

Less common. 2,112 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 2,073 in 2010, down 1.8%.

The surname Klopp

A German surname, carried by 2,073 people in the United States.

1 syllable Soundex K410

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Klopp is more common than 91.1% of them.

Origin

German origin

From the German surname, from Middle Low German klopper (“clapper, hammer, bobbin”), from the medieval name Chlodobert, from Frankish for "famously bright," from Proto-Germanic derivatives of Proto-Indo-European *ḱlu-tó-s (“famous”) << *ḱlew- (“to hear”) + *bʰerHǵ- (“to be bright, shine”). Compare Proto-Germanic *hleumô (“hearing”) and *berhtaz (“shining, bright”).

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 2,073 people named Klopp in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 148,937 Americans. That is down 1.8% since 2000, when the Census counted 2,112.

#14,419

rank among US surnames

2,073

people in 2010

0.7

per 100,000 Americans

-1.8%

change since 2000 (was #13,249)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#14,419	Klopp	2,073	148,937
#14,421	Metheny	2,072	149,008
#14,427	Castilla	2,071	149,080

Who is named Klopp

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

96% of people named Klopp identified as white (not Hispanic), 2.2% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

White (not Hispanic) 96%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.2%
Two or more races 1.0%
Asian and Pacific Islander 0.7%

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 Klopp

Klipp

Klopp has the Soundex code K410, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code K410.

Other German surnames

All 1,101 German surnames

Questions

Where does the surname Klopp come from?: From the German surname, from Middle Low German klopper (“clapper, hammer, bobbin”), from the medieval name Chlodobert, from Frankish for "famously bright," from Proto-Germanic derivatives of Proto-Indo-European *ḱlu-tó-s (“famous”) << *ḱlew- (“to hear”) + *bʰerHǵ- (“to be bright, shine”). Compare…
How common is the surname Klopp?: 2,073 people in the United States had the surname Klopp in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 148,937 Americans. It ranked 14,419th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Klopp?: In the 2010 Census, 96% of people named Klopp identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.2% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
Is the surname Klopp getting more or less common?: Less common. 2,112 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 2,073 in 2010, down 1.8%.