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

Total is the total number of people with that surname.
Rank is the position in the list of names ordered by total (eg, a rank of 1 means that it's the most common name, and a rank of 10 means it's the tenth most common, etc).
Frequency is the percentage of people with that surname.
Per million people is the number of people with that surname per million of the population.

'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.

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.