Noß
surname · Latin script
Meaning: from Slavic nos ‘nose’
Noß is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- DEGermany≈1 in 90Kas Noss(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 258Kas Noss
- NONorway1 in 42Kas Noss
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 Noß 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)
- Sources
- 215 (measured from records)
- 1 in 42K (inferred from the name graph)
1,287 named Noss, 2010
Highest-authority source
Norway, as Noss
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Noss in US United States, DE Germany, GB United Kingdom and 4 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(measured from records)
from Slavic nos ‘nose’
Sources 1
- Deutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung
Where in the world(measured from records)
Noß 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 | 1,287as Noss | 1 in 258K | 1.5K | NosS | 215 |
| DE Germany | ≈890 est. | ≈1 in 90K | — | NosS | 69 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈250 est. | ≈1 in 266K | 56 | NosS | 39 |
| FR France | ≈170 est. | ≈1 in 399K | 13 | — | 2 |
| BR Brazil | 159as Noss | 1 in 1.3M | 159 | — | — |
| NO Norway | 130as Noss | 1 in 42K | 130 | NosS | 4 |
| LB Lebanon | ≈34 est. | ≈1 in 159K | — | NosS | 1 |
| IE Ireland | ≈22 est. | ≈1 in 240K | — | NosS | 2 |
| BZ Belize | ≈7 est. | ≈1 in 54K | — | NosS | 1 |
1,287 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010, counting the spelling noss. 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; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000). 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
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Noß mean, and where does it come from?
- from Slavic nos ‘nose’ Recorded by Deutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung.
- In which country does Noß have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 1.3 thousand people named Noss, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Noß most common?
- No national register we hold counts the spelling Noß itself. The densest figure for its family of spellings is Norway's: the national register counts about 1 in 42 thousand people named Noss.
- How common is the name Noß?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,287 people named Noss in 2010, about 1 in 258 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/no%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, “Noß”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.