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The FOSSE surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 785 28584 0 3
United States (1880 census) 155 23173 0 3
Change since 1880 +630 -5411 +N/A 0
Other Countries
Australia 36 33227 0 2
United Kingdom 0 0
Top States for FOSSE by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Minnesota 131 5567 0.003 27
Illinois 114 11800 0.001 9
Washington 75 9703 0.001 13
California 59 37143 0.000 2
North Dakota 42 2540 0.007 65
Top States for FOSSE by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
North Dakota 42 2540 0.007 65
Minnesota 131 5567 0.003 27
Montana 15 9550 0.002 17
Washington 75 9703 0.001 13
Iowa 27 15975 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 FOSSE live. This obviously tends to be biased towards the most populous states. The second set of figures show where people called FOSSE represent the biggest proportion of the population. So, in this case, there are more people called FOSSE in Minnesota than any other state, but you are more likely to find a FOSSE by picking someone at random in North Dakota than anywhere else.

Classification and Origin of FOSSE

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

Ethnic distribution of FOSSE in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Caucasian) 736 93.76
White (Hispanic) 30 3.82
Mixed Race 8 1.02
Black/African American 6 0.76
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 FOSSE surname who reported their ethnic background as being in these broad categories in the most recent national census.

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

Meaning of FOSSE in historical publications

FOSS. FOSSE. The ditch of a fortified place. Conf. De la Fosse, and Ditch.

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 FOSSE

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as FOSSE.

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 FOSSE

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