Knöss Surname
Approximately 215 people bear this surname
Knöss Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Germany | 203 | 1:396,579 | 36,740 |
| Switzerland | 10 | 1:821,292 | 53,588 |
| Czechia | 1 | 1:10,633,469 | 206,023 |
| Indonesia | 1 | 1:132,249,194 | 811,426 |
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| United States | 55 | 1:913,067 | 55,053 |
Knöss Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Knöss Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Knöss is carried by more people in Germany than any other country/territory. It may also occur as a variant:. Click here for further potential spellings of this surname.
How Common Is The Last Name Knöss? popularity and diffusion
The surname Knöss is the 1,125,333rd most frequently held family name world-wide, borne by around 1 in 33,895,562 people. The surname occurs predominantly in Europe, where 100 percent of Knöss are found; 99 percent are found in Western Europe and 99 percent are found in Germanic Europe.
Knöss is most frequently used in Germany, where it is held by 203 people, or 1 in 396,579. In Germany it is most frequent in: Hesse, where 91 percent live, North Rhine-Westphalia, where 6 percent live and Bavaria, where 1 percent live. Other than Germany this last name exists in 3 countries. It is also found in Switzerland, where 5 percent live and Czechia, where 0 percent live.
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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
- Heatmap: Dark red means there is a higher occurrence of the name, transitioning to light yellow signifies a progressively lower occurrence. Clicking on selected countries will show mapping at a regional level
- 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 Knöss
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