Kniß
surname · Latin script
Kniß is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- BRBrazil1 in 340Kas Kniss(measured from records)
- DEGermany≈1 in 370Kfew recordsas Kniss
- USUnited States1 in 404Kas Kniss
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Kniß itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 193 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 55K (inferred from the name graph)
823 named Kniss, 2010
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Belize, est., as Kniss
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Kniß in other scripts: Latin
(measured from records)Locally spelled Kniss in US United States, DE Germany, GB United Kingdom and 2 more.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Where the surname Kniß is found
(measured from records)Kniß counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 823as Kniss | 1 in 404K | 823 | Kniss | 193 |
| BR Brazil | 623as Kniss | 1 in 340K | 623 | — | — |
| DE Germany | ≈230 est. | ≈1 in 367K | — | Kniss | 44 |
| TN Tunisia | ≈210 est. | ≈1 in 59K | — | Kniss | 5 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈140 est. | ≈1 in 498K | — | Kniss | 9 |
| BZ Belize | ≈8 est. | ≈1 in 55K | — | Kniss | 1 |
823 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Evidence
(measured from records)No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Kniß?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 823 people named Kniss, more than in any other country we hold. After it come Brazil, Germany, Tunisia and United Kingdom; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Kniß?
- In the United States, the national register counted 823 people named Kniss in 2010, about 1 in 404 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Kniß?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/kni%C3%9FThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Kniß” — ranked 28883rd in the United States (Census Bureau, 2010). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.