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The GRESS surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 3,768 8107 0.001 14
United States (1880 census) 572 8678 0.001 11
Change since 1880 +3196 +571 0 +3
Other Countries
Australia 9 92155 0 1
United Kingdom 25 28073 0 1
Top States for GRESS by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Pennsylvania 435 3522 0.004 35
Illinois 279 4717 0.002 22
Ohio 276 5084 0.002 24
New York 220 8772 0.001 12
California 217 11799 0.001 6
Top States for GRESS by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
North Dakota 94 857 0.015 146
Nebraska 142 1423 0.008 83
Montana 73 1602 0.008 81
Iowa 114 3725 0.004 39
Pennsylvania 435 3522 0.004 35

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

Classification and Origin of GRESS

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

Ethnic distribution of GRESS in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Hispanic) 158 4.19
Mixed Race 28 0.74
Black/African American 19 0.5
Asian/Pacific 17 0.45
Native American/Alaskan 13 0.35
White (Caucasian) 3,533 93.76

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

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

Meaning of GRESS in historical publications

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

Similar names to GRESS

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as GRESS.

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 GRESS

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