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The CLAUS surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 3,620 8393 0.001 13
United States (1880 census) 1,089 5093 0.002 22
Change since 1880 +2531 -3300 -0.001 -9
Other Countries
Australia 59 22209 0 4
United Kingdom 0 0
Top States for CLAUS by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
California 295 8929 0.001 9
New York 291 6599 0.002 15
Ohio 260 5293 0.002 23
Illinois 252 5130 0.002 20
Michigan 251 4761 0.003 25
Top States for CLAUS by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
North Dakota 44 2373 0.007 69
Nebraska 75 3190 0.004 44
Missouri 171 4255 0.003 31
South Dakota 21 6350 0.003 28
Iowa 80 5424 0.003 27

Notes

'A figure of zero indicates that we don't have data for this name (usually because it's quite uncommon and our stats don't go down that far). It doesn't mean that there's no-one with that name at all!

For less common surnames, the figures get progressively less reliable the fewer holders of that name there are. This data is aggregated from several public lists, and some stats are interpolated from known values. The margin of error is well over 100% at the rarest end of the table!

For less common surnames, the frequency and "per million" values may be 0 even though there are people with that name. That's because they represent less than one in a million of the population, which ends up as 0 after rounding.

It's possible for a surname to gain in rank and/or total while being less common per million people (or vice versa) as there are now more surnames in the USA as a result of immigration. In mathematical terms, the tail has got longer, with a far larger number of less common surnames.

Figures for top states show firstly the states where most people called CLAUS live. This obviously tends to be biased towards the most populous states. The second set of figures show where people called CLAUS represent the biggest proportion of the population. So, in this case, there are more people called CLAUS in California than any other state, but you are more likely to find a CLAUS by picking someone at random in North Dakota than anywhere else.

Classification and Origin of CLAUS

Region of origin: Europe

Country of origin: Netherlands

Language of origin: Dutch

Data for religion and/or language relates to the culture in which the CLAUS surname originated. It does not necessarily have any correlation with the language spoken, or religion practised, by the majority of current American citizens with that name.

Ethnic distribution of CLAUS in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Hispanic) 64 1.77
Mixed Race 48 1.33
Asian/Pacific 27 0.75
Black/African American 24 0.66
Native American/Alaskan 24 0.66
White (Caucasian) 3,433 94.83

Ethnic distribution data shows the number and percentage of people with the CLAUS surname who reported their ethnic background as being in these broad categories in the most recent national census.

Meaning of CLAUS in historical publications

Sorry, we don't have any information on the meaning of CLAUS.

Similar names to CLAUS

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as CLAUS.

This does not necessarily imply a direct relationship between the names, but may indicate names that could be mistaken for this one when written down or misheard.

Matches are generated automatically by a combination of Soundex, Metaphone and Levenshtein matching.

Potential typos for CLAUS

The following words are slight variants of CLAUS that are likely to be possible typos or misspellings in written material.