How common is the surname Strauss?

13,840 people in the United States had the surname Strauss in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 22,308 Americans. It ranked 2,604th of 162,253 surnames.

What ethnicity is the surname Strauss?

In the 2010 Census, 93% of people named Strauss identified as white (not Hispanic), and 3.0% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

Who is the most famous person named Strauss?

Johann Strauss II, Austrian composer (1825-1899), followed by Johann Strauss I.

Where is the surname Strauss most common?

Wikidata records people named Strauss in the United States, the Austrian Empire and Cisleithania and 3 other countries.

How do you pronounce Strauss?

Strauss is /stɹaʊs/, one syllable.

Is the surname Strauss getting more or less common?

More common. 13,719 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 13,840 in 2010, up 0.9%.

The surname Strauss

A German surname, carried by 13,840 people in the United States.

Pronounced /stɹaʊs/ 1 syllable Soundex S362

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Strauss is more common than 98.4% of them.

Origin

German origin

Borrowed from German Strauss.

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 13,840 people named Strauss in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 22,308 Americans. That is up 0.9% since 2000, when the Census counted 13,719.

#2,604

rank among US surnames

13,840

people in 2010

4.7

per 100,000 Americans

+0.9%

change since 2000 (was #2,420)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#2,595	Alves	13,882	22,241
#2,596	Forrester	13,878	22,247
#2,597	Coy	13,875	22,252
#2,598	Dykes	13,874	22,254
#2,599	Branham	13,872	22,257
#2,600	Grier	13,868	22,263
#2,601	Pfeiffer	13,851	22,290

Who is named Strauss

Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census

93% of people named Strauss identified as white (not Hispanic), 3.0% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 1.5% as Black (not Hispanic).

White (not Hispanic) 93%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 3.0%
Black (not Hispanic) 1.5%
Two or more races 1.1%
Asian and Pacific Islander 0.8%
American Indian and Alaska Native 0.3%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Famous Strausss

18 notable people on Wikidata, most written-about first

Johann Strauss II
Austrian composer (1825-1899)
Johann Strauss I
Austrian Romantic composer, 1804–1849
Joseph Strauss
Austrian composer, 1827–1870
Eduard Strauss
Austrian composer (1835–1916)
Peter Strauss
American actor, born 1947
Lewis Strauss
American banker and chairman of the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission (1896-1974)
Neil Strauss
American author and journalist (born 1969)
Joseph Strauss
American structural engineer (1870–1938)
Robert Strauss
American film actor (1913-1975)
Nita Strauss
American guitarist, born 1986
Ursula Strauss
Austrian actress, born 1974
Robert S. Strauss
American diplomat (1918–2014)

Notable Strausss come mostly from the United States (11), the Austrian Empire (3) and Cisleithania (1).

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Surnames that sound like Strauss

Strauss has the Soundex code S362, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code S362.

Other German surnames

All 1,101 German surnames

Questions

Where does the surname Strauss come from?: Borrowed from German Strauss.
How common is the surname Strauss?: 13,840 people in the United States had the surname Strauss in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 22,308 Americans. It ranked 2,604th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Strauss?: In the 2010 Census, 93% of people named Strauss identified as white (not Hispanic), and 3.0% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
Who is the most famous person named Strauss?: Johann Strauss II, Austrian composer (1825-1899), followed by Johann Strauss I.
Where is the surname Strauss most common?: Wikidata records people named Strauss in the United States, the Austrian Empire and Cisleithania and 3 other countries.
How do you pronounce Strauss?: Strauss is /stɹaʊs/, one syllable.
Is the surname Strauss getting more or less common?: More common. 13,719 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 13,840 in 2010, up 0.9%.