Röss Surname
Approximately 121 people bear this surname
Röss Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Germany | 70 | 1:1,150,078 | 75,714 |
| Hungary | 23 | 1:426,795 | 28,704 |
| Czechia | 18 | 1:590,748 | 58,011 |
| Switzerland | 8 | 1:1,026,614 | 63,315 |
| Bangladesh | 1 | 1:159,356,773 | 26,077 |
| England | 1 | 1:55,718,059 | 489,080 |
The alternate forms: Rõss (8) are calculated separately.
Röss Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Röss Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Röss is most common in Germany. It may be rendered in the variant forms: Rõss. For other potential spellings of this name click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Röss? popularity and diffusion
It is the 1,649,806th most frequently used family name globally. It is borne by around 1 in 60,227,652 people. It occurs mostly in Europe, where 99 percent of Röss live; 64 percent live in Western Europe and 64 percent live in Germanic Europe.
The surname is most commonly used in Germany, where it is borne by 70 people, or 1 in 1,150,078. In Germany it is primarily found in: Baden-Württemberg, where 51 percent reside, Rhineland-Palatinate, where 24 percent reside and Bavaria, where 20 percent reside. Outside of Germany this last name occurs in 5 countries. It also occurs in Hungary, where 19 percent reside and Czechia, where 15 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 Röss
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