Küss Surname
Approximately 58 people bear this surname
Küss Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Germany | 33 | 1:2,439,559 | 124,421 |
| Hungary | 22 | 1:446,194 | 29,593 |
| France | 2 | 1:33,211,361 | 423,184 |
| United States | 1 | 1:362,458,933 | 1,988,048 |
The alternate forms: Kuss (5,257), Kušš (17) & Kúšš (8) are calculated separately.
Küss Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Küss Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Küss is most common in Germany. It may also be rendered as a variant: Kuss, Kušš or Kúšš. For other possible spellings of this last name click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Küss? popularity and diffusion
The last name is the 2,530,696th most widely held surname on earth. It is borne by around 1 in 125,647,343 people. This surname is mostly found in Europe, where 98 percent of Küss reside; 60 percent reside in Western Europe and 57 percent reside in Germanic Europe.
This surname is most common in Germany, where it is borne by 33 people, or 1 in 2,439,559. In Germany it is most prevalent in: Bavaria, where 76 percent live, Hesse, where 15 percent live and Saarland, where 9 percent live. Excluding Germany it occurs in 3 countries. It is also found in Hungary, where 38 percent live and France, where 3 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 Küss
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