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The GAUSS surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 984 23940 0 4
United States (1880 census) 302 14196 0.001 6
Change since 1880 +682 -9744 +N/A -2
Other Countries
Australia 0 0
United Kingdom 0 0
Top States for GAUSS by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Michigan 188 5956 0.002 19
New York 102 16793 0.001 5
California 83 25076 0.000 2
Maryland 69 7601 0.001 13
Pennsylvania 64 20387 0.001 5
Top States for GAUSS by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Michigan 188 5956 0.002 19
Maryland 69 7601 0.001 13
Idaho 11 14095 0.001 9
Colorado 27 17790 0.001 6
New York 102 16793 0.001 5

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

Classification and Origin of GAUSS

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

Ethnic distribution of GAUSS in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Caucasian) 925 94
Black/African American 36 3.66
Mixed Race 9 0.91
Asian/Pacific 7 0.71
Native American/Alaskan Less than 100 Insignificant
White (Hispanic) Less than 100 Insignificant

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

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

Meaning of GAUSS in historical publications

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

Similar names to GAUSS

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as GAUSS.

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 GAUSS

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