Kress

6,810 people in the United States were counted with the surname Kress in the 2020 census, making it the 4,997th most common in the country. That is about one person in 43,900.

By the numbers

People: 6,810
Rank: 4,997th
How common: 1 in 43,900
Per 100,000: 2.3

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 92.8%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 3.5%
Hispanic or Latino 2.3%
Black, not Hispanic 0.6%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.6%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.1%

Notable people called Kress

Nathan Kress (born 1992)American actor
Nancy Kress (born 1948)American science fiction writer
Friedrich Freiherr Kress von Kressenstein (1870–1948)German general
Willibald Kreß (1906–1989)German footballer
Wilhelm Kress (1836–1913)Austrian aviation pioneer
Samuel Henry Kress (1863–1955)American businessman and philanthropist (1863-1955), founder of the S. H. Kress & Co. five and ten cent store chain

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

Surnames like Kress

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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.