The DOSS surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	20,623	1598	0.008	76
United States (1880 census)	2,411	2527	0.005	48
Change since 1880	+18212	+929	+0.003	+28
Other Countries
Australia	107	13450	0.001	7
United Kingdom	0			0

Top States for DOSS by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Texas	1,939	1357	0.009	93
Virginia	1,634	553	0.023	231
Alabama	1,587	475	0.036	357
California	1,284	2598	0.004	38
Tennessee	1,085	841	0.019	191
Top States for DOSS by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Alabama	1,587	475	0.036	357
Mississippi	911	504	0.032	320
Arkansas	732	488	0.027	274
West Virginia	460	630	0.025	254
Virginia	1,634	553	0.023	231

Notes

Total is the total number of people with that surname.
Rank is the position in the list of names ordered by total (eg, a rank of 1 means that it's the most common name, and a rank of 10 means it's the tenth most common, etc).
Frequency is the percentage of people with that surname.
Per million people is the number of people with that surname per million of the population.

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

Classification and Origin of DOSS

Region of origin: Europe

Country of origin: Germany

Language of origin: German

Data for religion and/or language relates to the culture in which the DOSS 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.

Ethnic distribution of DOSS in the USA

Classification	Total	Percent
White (Hispanic)	299	1.45
Mixed Race	280	1.36
Asian/Pacific	153	0.74
Native American/Alaskan	82	0.4
White (Caucasian)	15,263	74.01
Black/African American	4,543	22.03

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

Similar names to DOSS

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as DOSS.

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.