Fluß
surname · Latin script
Meaning: from the common noun 'river'; origin name
Fluß is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Germany than in any other country.
- DEGermany≈1 in 514K(inferred from the name graph)
- CZCzechia1 in 1.3Mas Fluss
- CHSwitzerland1 in 1.4Mas Fluss
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 Fluß 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.
- Germany (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 30 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 514K (inferred from the name graph)
≈160 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Germany, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Flüß in DE Germany, ES Spain and Fluss in US United States.
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 the common noun 'river'; origin name
Sources 1
- Deutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Fluß 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DE Germany | ≈160 est. | ≈1 in 514K | — | Flüß | 30 |
| US United States | 114as Fluss | 1 in 2.9M | 127 | Fluss | 17 |
| CZ Czechia | 8as Fluss | 1 in 1.3M | 8 | — | — |
| CH Switzerland | 6as Fluss | 1 in 1.4M | 6 | — | 4 |
| ES Spain | ≈2 est. | ≈1 in 30M | — | Flüß | 2 |
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; MVČR — living population register 2017; BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (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 recorded senses(measured from records)
Fluß 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, Formerly standard spelling of Fluss which was deprecated in the spelling reform (Rechtschreibreform) of 1996.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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.
Evidence(measured from records)
No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Fluß mean, and where does it come from?
- from the common noun 'river'; origin name Recorded by Deutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung.
- What are other forms of the name Fluß?
- In the etymology graph, Fluss is a form of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Fluß have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 156 people named Fluß in Germany, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled flüß.
- How common is the name Fluß?
- In the United States, the national register counted 114 people named Fluss in 2010, about 1 in 2.9 million residents.
What do you want to know about Fluß?
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/flu%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, “Fluß”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.