The GROSS surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	74,285	387	0.028	275
United States (1880 census)	14,223	405	0.028	284
Change since 1880	+60062	+18	0	-9
Other Countries
Australia	762	2132	0.005	47
United Kingdom	0			0

Top States for GROSS by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
New York	6,192	214	0.033	326
Pennsylvania	5,735	156	0.047	467
California	5,281	586	0.016	156
Florida	5,095	326	0.032	319
Ohio	4,109	272	0.036	362
Top States for GROSS by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
South Dakota	603	55	0.080	799
North Dakota	395	95	0.062	615
Maryland	2,983	135	0.056	563
Kentucky	2,150	248	0.053	532
Washington DC	284	187	0.050	496

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

Classification and Origin of GROSS

Language of origin: Hebrew

Religious origin: Jewish

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

Classification	Total	Percent
Mixed Race	854	1.15
Asian/Pacific	305	0.41
Native American/Alaskan	230	0.31
White (Caucasian)	64,338	86.61
Black/African American	7,317	9.85
White (Hispanic)	1,241	1.67

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

Similar names to GROSS

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as GROSS.

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.