# Gass (surname)

Source: https://namelineage.com/surname/gass/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. Counts from the US Census Bureau; origin and etymology from Wiktionary; bearers from Wikidata. Data updated 2026-11-11.

A surname from German.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Origin | German |
| Type | not recorded |
| People in the US (2010 Census) | 6,818 |
| US rank (2010) | 5,133 of 162,253 |
| How often | about 1 in every 45,284 people |
| Change since 2000 | -0.5% (6,850 in 2000) |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |

## Etymology

Borrowed from German Gass.

## Who carries it

Share of people named Gass in the 2010 US Census by the Census's own race and ethnicity groups. The Census suppresses a share when the count behind it is small.

| Group | Share |
|---|---|
| White (not Hispanic) | 88% |
| Black (not Hispanic) | 7.4% |
| Hispanic or Latino (any race) | 2.3% |
| Asian and Pacific Islander | 0.5% |
| American Indian and Alaska Native | 0.8% |
| Two or more races | 1.5% |

## Where

Wikidata records people named Gass in the United States and the United Kingdom.

## People named Gass

- Kyle Gass, American singer and musician (born 1960)
- William H. Gass, American fiction writer, critic, philosophy professor
- Simon Gass, British diplomat

## Similar surnames

Goss, Gause, Guss, Gaus, Gauss, Gasca, Gassaway, Gash, Gasque, Gage, Gooch, Gough.

## How to read these numbers

A Census count is people alive and counted in 2010, not births, and names occurring fewer than 100 times are not published at all. Ethnicity shares are the Census's own categories.