# Pless (surname)

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

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Origin | not recorded |
| Type | not recorded |
| People in the US (2010 Census) | 2,596 |
| US rank (2010) | 12,025 of 162,253 |
| How often | about 1 in every 118,931 people |
| Change since 2000 | +7.0% (2,426 in 2000) |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |

## Who carries it

Share of people named Pless 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) | 78% |
| Black (not Hispanic) | 17% |
| Hispanic or Latino (any race) | 2.4% |
| Two or more races | 1.8% |

## Where

Wikidata records people named Pless in the United States.

## People named Pless

- Vera Pless, American mathematician (1931–2020)

## Similar surnames

Pyles, Polk, Pollock, Pollack, Palacio, Place, Plaza, Pelaez, Paulk, Pawlowski, Paulus, Poulos.

## 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.