The HOSS surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	4,211	7298	0.002	16
United States (1880 census)	618	8141	0.001	12
Change since 1880	+3593	+843	+0.001	+4
Other Countries
Australia	20	52233	0	1
United Kingdom	0			0

Top States for HOSS by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
California	428	11805	0.001	13
Kansas	336	1851	0.012	125
Illinois	260	10088	0.002	21
Tennessee	255	5053	0.004	45
Texas	230	13777	0.001	11
Top States for HOSS by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Kansas	336	1851	0.012	125
South Dakota	48	5546	0.006	64
Iowa	170	5096	0.006	58
North Dakota	30	7446	0.005	47
Nebraska	78	6899	0.005	46

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

Classification and Origin of HOSS

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 HOSS 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 HOSS in the USA

Classification	Total	Percent
Black/African American	695	16.5
Mixed Race	86	2.04
White (Hispanic)	59	1.4
Asian/Pacific	33	0.78
Native American/Alaskan	28	0.66
White (Caucasian)	3,310	78.6

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

Similar names to HOSS

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as HOSS.

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.