Kloss

Kloss is the 10,874th most common surname in the United States, shared by 2,799 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 107,000.

By the numbers

People: 2,799
Rank: 10,874th
How common: 1 in 107,000
Per 100,000: 0.94

Where the name comes from

Origin German

As a German surname Klöss, from the personal name Kloss, shortened from Nikolaus. Compare Klos.

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 93.9%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 2.3%
Hispanic or Latino 2.1%
Black, not Hispanic 0.9%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.6%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.1%

Notable people called Kloss

Karlie Kloss (born 1992)American fashion model
Ilana Kloss (born 1956)South African tennis player
Cecil Boden Kloss (1877–1949)English zoologist
Heinz Kloss (1904–1987)German linguist

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

Surnames like Kloss

Klotz

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.