How common is the surname Suess?

1,690 people in the United States had the surname Suess in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 182,690 Americans. It ranked 16,868th of 162,253 surnames.

What ethnicity is the surname Suess?

In the 2010 Census, 94% of people named Suess identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.4% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

Who is the most famous person named Suess?

Eduard Suess, Austrian geologist (1831-1914), followed by Hans Suess.

Where is the surname Suess most common?

Wikidata records people named Suess in Cisleithania and the United States.

Is the surname Suess getting more or less common?

Less common. 1,821 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,690 in 2010, down 7.2%.

The surname Suess

A surname, carried by 1,690 people in the United States.

1 syllable Soundex S200

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Suess is more common than 89.6% of them.

Origin

A surname

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 1,690 people named Suess in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 182,690 Americans. That is down 7.2% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,821.

#16,868

rank among US surnames

1,690

people in 2010

0.6

per 100,000 Americans

-7.2%

change since 2000 (was #14,912)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#16,860	Cermak	1,692	182,474
#16,864	Doyal	1,691	182,582
#16,868	Chmiel	1,690	182,690
#16,876	Melnik	1,689	182,798

Who is named Suess

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

94% of people named Suess identified as white (not Hispanic), 2.4% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 1.7% as two or more races.

White (not Hispanic) 94%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.4%
Two or more races 1.7%
Asian and Pacific Islander 1.2%

The Census suppresses very small shares to protect privacy; Black, Native American are not shown.

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Famous Suesss

2 notable people on Wikidata, most written-about first

Eduard Suess
Austrian geologist (1831-1914)
Hans Suess
Austrian physicist (1909-1993)

Notable Suesss come mostly from Cisleithania (1) and the United States (1).

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Suess

Suess has the Soundex code S200, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code S200.

Questions

How common is the surname Suess?: 1,690 people in the United States had the surname Suess in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 182,690 Americans. It ranked 16,868th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Suess?: In the 2010 Census, 94% of people named Suess identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.4% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
Who is the most famous person named Suess?: Eduard Suess, Austrian geologist (1831-1914), followed by Hans Suess.
Where is the surname Suess most common?: Wikidata records people named Suess in Cisleithania and the United States.
Is the surname Suess getting more or less common?: Less common. 1,821 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,690 in 2010, down 7.2%.