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The BUSS surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 9,460 3455 0.004 35
United States (1880 census) 1,862 3177 0.004 37
Change since 1880 +7598 -278 0 -2
Other Countries
Australia 197 7656 0.001 12
United Kingdom 1,262 4323 0.003 27
Top States for BUSS by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Wisconsin 1,602 293 0.030 299
Illinois 1,002 1290 0.008 81
California 645 4599 0.002 19
Pennsylvania 623 2499 0.005 51
Minnesota 527 1055 0.011 107
Top States for BUSS by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Wisconsin 1,602 293 0.030 299
Nebraska 396 383 0.023 231
Iowa 360 942 0.012 123
South Dakota 86 1136 0.011 114
Minnesota 527 1055 0.011 107

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

Classification and Origin of BUSS

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

Data for religion and/or language relates to the culture in which the BUSS 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 BUSS 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 BUSS in the USA

Classification Total Percent
Black/African American 178 1.88
White (Hispanic) 121 1.28
Mixed Race 75 0.79
Asian/Pacific 49 0.52
Native American/Alaskan 25 0.26
White (Caucasian) 9,012 95.26

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

Meaning of BUSS in historical publications

BUSS. Ferguson says a " stout man." A Sivard Buss occurs in Domesd. and there were Norsemen and Norsewomen called respectively Buss and Bussa. Hence M'ould come the 0. Norse bustuDi, burly — our name Bustin. Ferguson. In the S. of Engl. Buss is a conmion nickname of Barnabas.

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 BUSS

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as BUSS.

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 BUSS

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