Voss

At the 2020 census, 20,531 Americans bore the surname Voss — 1,709th out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 14,600.

By the numbers

People: 20,531
Rank: 1,709th
How common: 1 in 14,600
Per 100,000: 6.9

Where the name comes from

Surname sense probably from Low German Voss, Voß (“fox”).

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 90.7%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 2.9%
Hispanic or Latino 2.9%
Black, not Hispanic 2.3%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.8%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.4%

Notable people called Voss

Janice E. Voss (1956–2012)American engineer and NASA astronaut
Johann Heinrich Voss (1751–1826)German poet and classics translator
James S. Voss (born 1949)American astronaut
Martina Voss-Tecklenburg (born 1967)German association football player and manager
Torsten Voss (born 1963)East German bobsledder
Werner Voß (1897–1917)German flying ace
Julie von Voss (1766–1789)morganatic wife of Frederick William II of Prussia
Augusts Voss (1916–1994)Latvian Soviet politician

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

Surnames like Voss

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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.