Prüß

surname · Latin script

Meaning: Toponymic surname; from place names/landscape features, possibly to mnd

Prüß is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • DEGermany≈1 in 83K(inferred from the name graph)
  • USUnited States1 in 334Kas Pruss
  • BZBelize≈1 in 16Kas Pruss

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 Prüß 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)

996 named Pruss, 2010

Sources
225 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 83K (inferred from the name graph)

Germany, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

PrussLatin(measured from records)

2 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Pruss in US United States, BR Brazil, AU Australia 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(measured from records)

Toponymic surname; from place names/landscape features, possibly to mnd. Prusse or slaw. Prus 'Preuße', also in some cases to Breusch/Brüsch or toponyms like Prauß(en); 14 types, 1144 tokens; Prüß(e) 570+133, Prühs(e) 169+2, Prüss(e) 60+80, Prue(h)s 77+5, Pruess(e) 16+2, Prüs 16, Prue(h)ß 8+1, Prühß 5.

Sources 1

  • Deutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 4: Familiennamen nach Herkunft und Wohnstätte

Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Prüß 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.

Where Prüß is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States—996as Pruss1 in 334K1.1KPruss225
DE Germany—≈970 est.≈1 in 83K—Prüß68
PL Poland—476as Pruss1 in 80K240—1
BR Brazil—292as Pruss1 in 725K292Pruss33
CA Canada—≈160 est.≈1 in 230K—Pruss53
AU Australia—≈120 est.≈1 in 218K—Pruss42
BZ Belize#203≈25 est.≈1 in 16K—Pruss1

996 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; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames). 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).

Other names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Prüß is also recorded as another name, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Pruß

3 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Prüß is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In German, Toponymic surname from a place name/region or dwelling feature; bearer count 1144.

    as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 4: Familiennamen nach Herkunft und Wohnstätte

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

  • Walter Prüßb. 1911DEGerman officer and Knight's Cross recipient (1911-2003)

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 3 sources across 1 country.

Official registers attesting Prüß
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames)20262—
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names)—2#383,184

Reference works 1

  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

Frequently asked questions

Where does the name Prüß come from?
Toponymic surname; from place names/landscape features, possibly to mnd. Prusse or slaw. Recorded by Deutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 4: Familiennamen nach Herkunft und Wohnstätte.
What does the name Prüß mean?
Recorded meaning: Toponymic surname; from place names/landscape features, possibly to mnd.
In which country does Prüß have the most bearers?
In the United States, the national register counted about 996 people named Pruss, more than in any other country we hold.
How common is the name Prüß?
In the United States, the national register counted 996 people named Pruss in 2010, about 1 in 334 thousand residents.
How common is Prüß compared with other names?
In Belize, Prüß is the 203rd most common surname of 11,408 surnames recorded there.

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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, “Prüß” — the 203rd most common surname in Belize. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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