Russ

At the 2020 census, 14,521 Americans bore the surname Russ — 2,432nd out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 20,600.

By the numbers

People: 14,521
Rank: 2,432nd
How common: 1 in 20,600
Per 100,000: 4.9

Where the name comes from

Diminutive of Russell.

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 69.7%
Black, not Hispanic 22.0%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.2%
Hispanic or Latino 2.9%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.6%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.5%

Notable people called Russ

Joanna Russ (1937–2011)American author
Tim Russ (born 1956)American actor
Marco Russ (born 1985)German footballer
Kurt Russ (born 1964)Austrian association football player
William Russ (born 1950)actor, television director
Matthias Russ (born 1983)road bicycle racer
Russ (born 1992)American rapper, singer, songwriter, record producer, author, and actor

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

Surnames like Russ

Also a first name

Russ has been given to 6,131 American babies as a first name since 1898, peaking in 1959. 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.