# Klostermann (surname)

Source: https://namelineage.com/surname/klostermann/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. Counts from the US Census Bureau; origin and etymology from Wiktionary; bearers from Wikidata. Data updated 2026-11-11.

A surname from German.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Origin | German |
| Type | occupational, named after the work an ancestor did |
| People in the US (2010 Census) | 642 |
| US rank (2010) | 35,096 of 162,253 |
| How often | about 1 in every 480,912 people |
| Change since 2000 | +8.1% (594 in 2000) |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Variant spellings | Klosterman |

## Etymology

Borrowed from German Klostermann, an occupational surname for a servant in a monastery, from Kloster (“monastery; cloister”) + Mann (“man”).

## Who carries it

Share of people named Klostermann in the 2010 US Census by the Census's own race and ethnicity groups. The Census suppresses a share when the count behind it is small.

| Group | Share |
|---|---|
| White (not Hispanic) | 98% |
| Hispanic or Latino (any race) | 1.3% |
| American Indian and Alaska Native | 0.0% |

## Similar surnames

Klosterman, Kloster, Kleist, Kolstad.

## How to read these numbers

A Census count is people alive and counted in 2010, not births, and names occurring fewer than 100 times are not published at all. Ethnicity shares are the Census's own categories.