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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

'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.

Meaning of GROSS in historical publications

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

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.

Matches are generated automatically by a combination of Soundex, Metaphone and Levenshtein matching.

Potential typos for GROSS

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