Klaus is a first name for boys.
… it’s a special occasion. That’s because the name Klaus is quite rare in the US. While it’s still a name in use, lately, only approximately 3 out of 100,000 boys have been named Klaus. In the SmartGenius ranking, Klaus is #2,362 on the list of most common boys names. If you polled the whole US population – children, adults and seniors – you’d find less than one in 10,000 to be named Klaus.
Do you know the feeling when you go to the zoo and the animal that is supposed to be in the enclosure is not there? You know it should to be there, but you've never seen it? It's the same with Klaus. Boys named Klaus have made themselves scarce. But some parents got a taste for it many years ago: Reaching pos. 1,166 Klaus ranked higher than ever in 1968. By comparison, there have been 76 years in which the first name Klaus has not been given at all (or less than 5 times, which is the minimum number required for a name to be included in the statistics), most recently in 2004. In general, parents name their sons Klaus only once in a blue moon, so boys and men with this name can consider themselves really special!
In years where the graph has no value, the name Klaus was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
In 2022, Klaus continues to be a precious jewel: 84 newborns were named Klaus that year, ranking #1,690 in the SmartGenius name statistics. If your baby's name is Klaus, you must have a flair for beautiful and rare names: Congratulations, your child is sure to feel unique.
In not even one in five states you will find more than 4 men and boys with the name Klaus. This first name might not be completely unknown, but in the entire United States, there are about 183 Americans who bear this name. And these 183 men and boys named Klaus live in no more than 7 different states, including for example California, Florida, Illinois, Minnesota and New York. In the other 42 states, there are either none or less than a handful boys and men with this name (to explain: The official statistics provide the data per state only if at least five men with a specific name live in the same state. So, it’s quite possible that there are one or two states where someone with the name Klaus lives although the name is not listed in the official statistics. Should you be one of those rare people whose name is Klaus and you live outside the states highlighted on the map, please let us know so we can improve our statistics). The state with the most boys and men named Klaus relative to its male population is California. And even there, only one male in 170,122 would raise his hand if you asked, who is called Klaus.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter K is a real popular first letter for boys’ names. That’s because 7.9% of all common boys’ names in the US begin with this letter. Only the first letters J, A and D are more common for boys' names.
With five letters, the name Klaus is comparatively short. In fact, 17.0% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly five letters. Only 7% of all first names are even shorter, while 75% have more than five letters. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long. There are no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.
That means that if 7.9% of all boys' names start with a K, this initial letter occurs more than twice as often as all 26 letters on average. Interesting detail: of all the boys’ names that begin with a K, Kenneth is the most common.
If your name is Klaus and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...
So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Klaus, you can simply say:
Koala
Lion
Apple
Unicorn
Sun
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Klaus
Klaus
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
K
L
A
U
S
In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.
K
L
A
U
S
In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Klaus sounds like this:
