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The KLEM surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 2,000 13855 0.001 7
United States (1880 census) 202 19201 0 4
Change since 1880 +1798 +5346 +N/A +3
Other Countries
Australia 64 20824 0 4
United Kingdom 0 0
Top States for KLEM by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Pennsylvania 226 6740 0.002 18
Indiana 205 3794 0.003 34
New York 204 9391 0.001 11
Florida 162 11217 0.001 10
California 141 17002 0.000 4
Top States for KLEM by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Indiana 205 3794 0.003 34
Montana 19 7823 0.002 21
Pennsylvania 226 6740 0.002 18
Arizona 59 9396 0.001 11
New York 204 9391 0.001 11

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

Classification and Origin of KLEM

Sorry, we don't have any origin and classification information for the KLEM surname.

Ethnic distribution of KLEM in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Hispanic) 18 0.9
Black/African American 14 0.7
Mixed Race 11 0.55
White (Caucasian) 1,945 97.25
Asian/Pacific Less than 100 Insignificant
Native American/Alaskan Less than 100 Insignificant

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

KLEM is a genuine surname, but it's an uncommon one. Did you possibly mean one of these instead?

Meaning of KLEM in historical publications

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

Similar names to KLEM

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as KLEM.

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 KLEM

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