The surname Foos
A German surname, carried by 2,209 people in the United States.
1 syllable Soundex F200
Origin
German origin
Americanized spelling of German Fuss.
One of 1,101 German surnames on this site.
Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How common it is
2010 US Census
There were 2,209 people named Foos in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 139,767 Americans. That is up 0.8% since 2000, when the Census counted 2,191.
Who is named Foos
Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census
95% of people named Foos identified as white (not Hispanic), 2.3% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 1.3% as two or more races.
- White (not Hispanic) 95%
- Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.3%
- Two or more races 1.3%
- American Indian and Alaska Native 0.5%
- Black (not Hispanic) 0.4%
- Asian and Pacific Islander 0.3%
Spellings and sound-alikes
Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling
Foos has the Soundex code F200, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code F200.
Other German surnames
Questions
- Where does the surname Foos come from?
- Americanized spelling of German Fuss.
- How common is the surname Foos?
- 2,209 people in the United States had the surname Foos in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 139,767 Americans. It ranked 13,703rd of 162,253 surnames.
- What ethnicity is the surname Foos?
- In the 2010 Census, 95% of people named Foos identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.3% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
- Is the surname Foos getting more or less common?
- More common. 2,191 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 2,209 in 2010, up 0.8%.