How common is the surname Kloster?

1,474 people in the United States had the surname Kloster in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 209,461 Americans. It ranked 18,660th of 162,253 surnames.

What ethnicity is the surname Kloster?

In the 2010 Census, 95% of people named Kloster identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.2% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

Is the surname Kloster getting more or less common?

Less common. 1,504 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,474 in 2010, down 2.0%.

The surname Kloster

A German surname, carried by 1,474 people in the United States.

2 syllables Soundex K423

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Kloster is more common than 88.5% of them.

Origin

German origin

Borrowed from German Kloster.

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 1,474 people named Kloster in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 209,461 Americans. That is down 2.0% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,504.

#18,660

rank among US surnames

1,474

people in 2010

0.5

per 100,000 Americans

-2%

change since 2000 (was #17,323)

Who is named Kloster

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

95% of people named Kloster identified as white (not Hispanic), 2.2% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 1.8% as two or more races.

White (not Hispanic) 95%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.2%
Two or more races 1.8%
American Indian and Alaska Native 0.6%

The Census suppresses very small shares to protect privacy; Black, Asian & Pacific Islander are not shown.

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Kloster

Kloster has the Soundex code K423, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code K423.

Other German surnames

All 1,101 German surnames

Questions

Where does the surname Kloster come from?: Borrowed from German Kloster.
How common is the surname Kloster?: 1,474 people in the United States had the surname Kloster in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 209,461 Americans. It ranked 18,660th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Kloster?: In the 2010 Census, 95% of people named Kloster identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.2% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
Is the surname Kloster getting more or less common?: Less common. 1,504 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,474 in 2010, down 2.0%.