Knauss
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/ˈnɔs/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Knauss is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Borrowed from German Knauss.
- DEGermany≈1 in 180Kas Knauß(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 150K
- NONorway1 in 1.1M
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 Knauss 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
- 135 (measured from records)
- 1 in 150K (inferred from the name graph)
2,212 people, 2010
Highest-authority source
United States
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
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)
Borrowed from German Knauss.
Sources 2
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Wiktionary
Where in the world(measured from records)
Knauss 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.
2,212 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 2000; the dfa-band-5 register; dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population). 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)
Knauss 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 gmq-mno, hillock
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.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Frank Knaussb. 1868USAmerican baseball player
- Sarah Knaussb. 1880USAmerican supercentenarian (1880–1999)
- Otto Knaussb. 1889entomologist
- John A. Knaussb. 1925USAmerican oceanographer
- Wolfgang Gustav Knaussb. 1933USAmerican scientist in engineering
- Monika Hertwigb. 1945DEnot in their usual nameGerman writer, daughter of Amon Göth
- Bernhard Knaussb. 1965ATOlympic alpine skier
- Ines Knaussb. 1968USMelania Trump's Sister
- Hans Knaußb. 1971ATnot in their usual nameAustrian alpine skier
- Lena Knaussb. 1984DEGerman film director and screenwriter
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).
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 14 sources across 7 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 2.2K | #12,711 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 2.2K | #13,690 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 2.1K | #13,983 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 5 | #67,305 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 3 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 3 | #269,656 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 3 | #63,367 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 2 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 2 | #349,449 |
| DE Germany | Deutscher Familiennamenatlas Band 5 | — | — | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
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
- What does the name Knauss mean, and where does it come from?
- Borrowed from German Knauss. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names and Wiktionary.
- How do you pronounce Knauss?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈnɔs/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Knauss have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 2.2 thousand people named Knauss, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled knauss.
- Where is Knauss most common?
- Knauss is densest in the United States, where the national register counts about 1 in 150 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Knauss?
- In the United States, the national register counted 2,212 people named Knauss in 2010, about 1 in 150 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/knaussThe 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, “Knauss”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.