# Kiss (surname)

Source: https://namelineage.com/surname/kiss/  
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 Hungarian.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Origin | Hungarian |
| Type | not recorded |
| People in the US (2010 Census) | 3,990 |
| US rank (2010) | 8,305 of 162,253 |
| How often | about 1 in every 77,380 people |
| Change since 2000 | +11% (3,601 in 2000) |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |

## Etymology

* As a Hungarian surname, from Kiss. * As an English surname of Norman origin, from Anglo-Norman cuisse (“thigh”).

## Who carries it

Share of people named Kiss 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) | 94% |
| Black (not Hispanic) | 0.6% |
| Hispanic or Latino (any race) | 3.6% |
| Asian and Pacific Islander | 0.7% |
| American Indian and Alaska Native | 0.1% |
| Two or more races | 1.2% |

## Where

Wikidata records people named Kiss in Hungary.

## People named Kiss

- Antal Kiss, athletics competitor (1935–2021)
- Tamás Kiss, association football player
- József Kiss, Austro-Hungarian flying ace (1896–1918)
- Máté Kiss, association football player (b. 1991)
- Károly Kiss, (1903–1983) politician
- Leslie Kish, American statistician (1910-2000)

## Similar surnames

Koss, Kass, Kuss, Kies, Kish, Koch, Keys, Keyes, Keck, Kwok, Koski, Keough.

## 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.