Klöss Surname
Approximately 435 people bear this surname
Klöss Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Germany | 430 | 1:187,222 | 21,768 |
| South Africa | 2 | 1:27,088,852 | 277,613 |
| Austria | 1 | 1:8,515,435 | 118,036 |
| Brazil | 1 | 1:214,074,332 | 1,693,628 |
| Romania | 1 | 1:20,077,870 | 89,414 |
Klöss Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Klöss Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Klöss occurs in Germany more than any other country or territory. It may be rendered in the variant forms:. For other potential spellings of this last name click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Klöss? popularity and diffusion
Klöss is the 683,026th most frequently used last name at a global level It is held by around 1 in 16,752,979 people. Klöss occurs mostly in Europe, where 99 percent of Klöss live; 99 percent live in Western Europe and 99 percent live in Germanic Europe.
This last name is most frequently held in Germany, where it is borne by 430 people, or 1 in 187,222. In Germany it is mostly found in: Baden-Württemberg, where 41 percent reside, Bavaria, where 27 percent reside and Hesse, where 18 percent reside. Excluding Germany it occurs in 4 countries. It is also found in South Africa, where 0 percent reside and Austria, where 0 percent reside.
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Footnotes
- Surnames are taken as the first part of an person's inherited family name, caste, clan name or in some cases patronymic
- Name distribution statistics are generated from a global database of over 4 billion people - more information
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- Rank: Name are ranked by incidence using the ordinal ranking method; the name that occurs the most is assigned a rank of 1; name that occur less frequently receive an incremented rank; if two or more name occur the same number of times they are assigned the same rank and successive rank is incremented by the total preceeding names
- Ethnic group cannot necessarily be determined by geographic occurrence
- Similar: Names listed in the "Similar" section are phonetically similar and may not have any relation to Klöss
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