Bliss

At the 2020 census, 14,056 Americans bore the surname Bliss — 2,501st out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 21,300.

By the numbers

People: 14,056
Rank: 2,501st
How common: 1 in 21,300
Per 100,000: 4.7

Where the name comes from

Origin a nickname

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Bliss described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

White, not Hispanic 88.9%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.0%
Hispanic or Latino 3.6%
Black, not Hispanic 1.9%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 1.0%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.7%

Notable people called Bliss

Alexa Bliss (born 1991)American professional wrestler
Nathaniel Bliss (1700–1764)English astronomer
Arthur Bliss (1891–1975)English composer and conductor
Lucille Bliss (1916–2012)American actress
Caroline Bliss (born 1961)British actress
Kirby Bliss Blanton (born 1990)American actress
Philip Bliss (1838–1876)19th century Christian hymnodist
Tasker H. Bliss (1853–1930)8th Chief of Staff of the United States Army

People named Bliss with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Surnames like Bliss

Blizzard

Also a first name

Bliss has been given to 2,023 American babies as a first name since 1887, peaking in 2023. See it as a given name.

Try it on yourself

Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.