Liss

At the 2020 census, 3,172 Americans bore the surname Liss — 9,760th out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 94,200.

By the numbers

People: 3,172
Rank: 9,760th
How common: 1 in 94,200
Per 100,000: 1.1

Where the name comes from

Origin German

A Germanized or Americanized form of Lis, from Polish lis (“fox”), Ukrainian лис (“fox”), and related languages.

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 91.8%
Hispanic or Latino 3.8%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 2.6%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 1.1%
Black, not Hispanic 0.4%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.3%

Notable people called Liss

Johann Liss (1590–1629)Baroque painter
Lucas Liss (born 1992)German cyclist

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

Surnames like Liss

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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.