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The KNISS surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 740 29932 0 3
United States (1880 census) 196 19601 0 4
Change since 1880 +544 -10331 +N/A -1
Other Countries
Australia 0 0
United Kingdom 0 0
Top States for KNISS by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
California 112 18879 0.000 3
Michigan 109 10340 0.001 11
Pennsylvania 80 16170 0.001 7
Illinois 57 20648 0.000 5
Ohio 40 27171 0.000 4
Top States for KNISS by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Nebraska 36 6697 0.002 21
Michigan 109 10340 0.001 11
Wyoming 4 14829 0.001 8
Colorado 32 14561 0.001 7
Montana 6 19183 0.001 7

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

Classification and Origin of KNISS

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

Ethnic distribution of KNISS in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Caucasian) 715 96.62
White (Hispanic) 10 1.35
Mixed Race 7 0.95
Asian/Pacific Less than 100 Insignificant
Black/African American Less than 100 Insignificant
Native American/Alaskan Less than 100 Insignificant

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

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

Meaning of KNISS in historical publications

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

Similar names to KNISS

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as KNISS.

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 KNISS

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