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The NOSS surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 1,299 19302 0 5
United States (1880 census) 290 14654 0.001 6
Change since 1880 +1009 -4648 +N/A -1
Other Countries
Australia 24 44972 0 1
United Kingdom 0 0
Top States for NOSS by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Pennsylvania 373 3898 0.003 30
Ohio 152 8431 0.001 13
California 120 18906 0.000 4
Florida 64 24093 0.000 4
Wisconsin 43 19473 0.001 8
Top States for NOSS by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Pennsylvania 373 3898 0.003 30
North Dakota 12 8697 0.002 19
Ohio 152 8431 0.001 13
Idaho 12 13358 0.001 9
Iowa 27 15613 0.001 9

Notes

'A figure of zero indicates that we don't have data for this name (usually because it's quite uncommon and our stats don't go down that far). It doesn't mean that there's no-one with that name at all!

For less common surnames, the figures get progressively less reliable the fewer holders of that name there are. This data is aggregated from several public lists, and some stats are interpolated from known values. The margin of error is well over 100% at the rarest end of the table!

For less common surnames, the frequency and "per million" values may be 0 even though there are people with that name. That's because they represent less than one in a million of the population, which ends up as 0 after rounding.

It's possible for a surname to gain in rank and/or total while being less common per million people (or vice versa) as there are now more surnames in the USA as a result of immigration. In mathematical terms, the tail has got longer, with a far larger number of less common surnames.

Figures for top states show firstly the states where most people called NOSS live. This obviously tends to be biased towards the most populous states. The second set of figures show where people called NOSS represent the biggest proportion of the population. So, in this case, there are more people called NOSS in Pennsylvania than any other state, but you are more likely to find a NOSS by picking someone at random in Pennsylvania than anywhere else.

Classification and Origin of NOSS

Sorry, we don't have any origin and classification information for the NOSS surname.

Ethnic distribution of NOSS in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Hispanic) 30 2.31
Black/African American 24 1.85
Mixed Race 12 0.92
White (Caucasian) 1,220 93.92
Asian/Pacific Less than 100 Insignificant
Native American/Alaskan Less than 100 Insignificant

Ethnic distribution data shows the number and percentage of people with the NOSS surname who reported their ethnic background as being in these broad categories in the most recent national census.

NOSS is a genuine surname, but it's an uncommon one. Did you possibly mean one of these instead?

Meaning of NOSS in historical publications

Sorry, we don't have any information on the meaning of NOSS.

Similar names to NOSS

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as NOSS.

This does not necessarily imply a direct relationship between the names, but may indicate names that could be mistaken for this one when written down or misheard.

Matches are generated automatically by a combination of Soundex, Metaphone and Levenshtein matching.

Potential typos for NOSS

The following words are slight variants of NOSS that are likely to be possible typos or misspellings in written material.