The SLOSS surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	1,494	17408	0.001	6
United States (1880 census)	426	10948	0.001	9
Change since 1880	+1068	-6460	0	-3
Other Countries
Australia	213	7122	0.001	13
United Kingdom	381	10798	0.001	8

Top States for SLOSS by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Pennsylvania	231	6725	0.002	19
California	179	14066	0.001	5
Texas	100	15664	0.000	5
Florida	78	21607	0.000	5
Iowa	71	6542	0.002	24
Top States for SLOSS by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Iowa	71	6542	0.002	24
Washington DC	11	5472	0.002	19
Pennsylvania	231	6725	0.002	19
Kentucky	64	6263	0.002	16
South Carolina	42	8579	0.001	10

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

Classification and Origin of SLOSS

Region of origin: Europe

Country of origin: Netherlands

Language of origin: Dutch

Ethnic origin: Celtic

Religious origin: Christian

Data for religion and/or language relates to the culture in which the SLOSS 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.

Data for ethnic origin relates to the region and country in which the SLOSS surname originated. It does not necessarily have any correlation with the ethnicity of the majority of current American citizens with that name.

Ethnic distribution of SLOSS in the USA

Classification	Total	Percent
Black/African American	277	18.54
White (Hispanic)	82	5.49
Mixed Race	20	1.34
Native American/Alaskan	17	1.14
Asian/Pacific	6	0.4
White (Caucasian)	1,092	73.09

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

Similar names to SLOSS

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as SLOSS.

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.