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The RIESS surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 1,764 15293 0.001 6
United States (1880 census) 210 18601 0 4
Change since 1880 +1554 +3308 +N/A +2
Other Countries
Australia 37 32536 0 2
United Kingdom 0 0
Top States for RIESS by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
California 168 14683 0.000 5
Illinois 159 8282 0.001 13
Minnesota 151 4682 0.003 31
Florida 130 13644 0.001 8
New Jersey 108 9157 0.001 13
Top States for RIESS by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Minnesota 151 4682 0.003 31
Delaware 13 10527 0.002 17
Rhode Island 16 9323 0.002 15
Wisconsin 79 11201 0.001 15
New Jersey 108 9157 0.001 13

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

Classification and Origin of RIESS

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

Ethnic distribution of RIESS in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Hispanic) 39 2.21
Asian/Pacific 11 0.62
Black/African American 11 0.62
White (Caucasian) 1,694 96.03
Mixed Race Less than 100 Insignificant
Native American/Alaskan Less than 100 Insignificant

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

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

Meaning of RIESS in historical publications

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

Similar names to RIESS

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as RIESS.

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 RIESS

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