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The RUSS surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 17,136 1931 0.006 64
United States (1880 census) 3,395 1801 0.007 68
Change since 1880 +13741 -130 -0.001 -4
Other Countries
Australia 506 3182 0.003 31
United Kingdom 1,124 4781 0.002 24
Top States for RUSS by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Florida 2,240 1103 0.014 140
North Carolina 1,481 972 0.018 184
California 1,203 3117 0.004 36
Ohio 945 1738 0.008 83
New York 910 2509 0.005 48
Top States for RUSS by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
North Carolina 1,481 972 0.018 184
Delaware 117 1438 0.015 149
South Carolina 578 1382 0.014 144
Florida 2,240 1103 0.014 140
Vermont 81 1643 0.013 133

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

Classification and Origin of RUSS

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: From given name or forename

Data for religion and/or language relates to the culture in which the RUSS surname originated. It does not necessarily have any correlation with the language spoken, or religion practised, by the majority of current American citizens with that name.

Data for ethnic origin relates to the region and country in which the RUSS surname originated. It does not necessarily have any correlation with the ethnicity of the majority of current American citizens with that name.

Ethnic distribution of RUSS in the USA

Classification Total Percent
Mixed Race 291 1.7
White (Hispanic) 230 1.34
Native American/Alaskan 94 0.55
Asian/Pacific 63 0.37
White (Caucasian) 12,610 73.59
Black/African American 3,845 22.44

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

Meaning of RUSS in historical publications

RUSS. A Russian.

Lower, Mark A (1860) Patronymica Britannica: a dictionary of the family names of the United Kingdom. London: J.R. Smith. Public Domain.


Similar names to RUSS

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as RUSS.

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 RUSS

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