Gross
At the 2020 census, 70,852 Americans bore the surname Gross — 455th out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 4,219.
By the numbers
- People
- 70,852
- Rank
- 455th
- How common
- 1 in 4,219
- Per 100,000
- 23.7
Where the name comes from
Origin Middle English
As a Jewish and German surname, from groß (“great, large”). The Jewish surname was influenced by Hebrew גדול (“big, large”), hence the Hebraicization Gadol.
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Who bears the name
How people with the surname Gross described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:
Notable people called Gross
- David Gross (born 1941)American particle physicist and string theorist
- Pascal Groß (born 1991)German footballer
- Stanislav Gross (1969–2015)Czech politician
- Ricco Groß (born 1970)German biathlete
- Michael Gross (born 1964)West German swimmer, Olympic gold medallist, world champion, former world record-holder
- Otto Gross (1877–1920)Austrian psychoanalyst
- Michael Gross (born 1947)American actor
- Christian Gross (born 1954)Swiss association football player and manager
People named Gross with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Surnames like Gross
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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.