Kuß Surname

385,006th
Most Common
surname in the World

Approximately 923 people bear this surname

Most prevalent in:
Germany
Highest density in:
Germany

Kuß Surname

The meaning of this surname is not listed.

Kuß Surname Distribution Map

PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
Germany8911:90,35411,367
Austria321:266,10730,958

The alternate forms: Ku (395,623), (12), (5) & (1) are calculated separately.

Kuß Last Name Facts

Where Does The Last Name Kuß Come From? nationality or country of origin

The last name Kuß is found most in Germany. It may also appear in the variant forms: Ku, , or . Click here for further potential spellings of this last name.

How Common Is The Last Name Kuß? popularity and diffusion

The last name is the 385,006th most frequent last name worldwide, held by approximately 1 in 7,895,499 people. The surname Kuß occurs predominantly in Europe, where 100 percent of Kuß are found; 100 percent are found in Western Europe and 100 percent are found in Germanic Europe.

This last name is most frequently occurring in Germany, where it is borne by 891 people, or 1 in 90,354. In Germany Kuß is mostly concentrated in: North Rhine-Westphalia, where 33 percent are found, Rhineland-Palatinate, where 9 percent are found and Brandenburg, where 9 percent are found. Other than Germany this last name exists in one country. It also occurs in Austria, where 3 percent are found.

Phonetically Similar Names

SurnameSimilarityWorldwide IncidencePrevalency
Ku93395,623/
Kauß86216/
Keuß866/
Kuße866/
Kouß861/
8012/
805/
801/
Kou67412,508/
Kui67129,506/
Kuş6749,101/
Kuy6732,511/
Kau6721,470/
Kuh6711,061/
Khu679,668/
Kus678,911/
Kuz678,171/
Keu671,560/
Kuu671,083/
Kku67466/
Kuś67116/
Kuš6792/
Kuç6726/
Kuj6720/
Hku6719/
Gku6715/
Kõu6713/
Qku678/
Kgu675/
Cku674/
Kcu673/
Küß672/

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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 Kuß
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