Prüss
surname · Latin script
Prüss is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 334K(measured from records)
- DEGermany≈1 in 83Kas Prüß
- BZBelize≈1 in 16K
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)
- Sources
- 225 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 16K (inferred from the name graph)
996 people, 2010
Highest-authority source
Belize, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Pruss in US United States, BR Brazil, AU Australia and 2 more and Prüß in DE Germany.
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.
Attested across 13 languages 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.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | — | 996 | 1 in 334K | 1.1K | Pruss | 225 |
| DE Germany | — | ≈970 est. | ≈1 in 83K | — | Prüß | 68 |
| PL Poland | — | 476 | 1 in 80K | 240 | — | 1 |
| BR Brazil | — | 292 | 1 in 725K | 292 | Pruss | 33 |
| CA Canada | — | ≈160 est. | ≈1 in 230K | — | Pruss | 53 |
| AU Australia | — | ≈120 est. | ≈1 in 218K | — | Pruss | 42 |
| BZ Belize | #203 | ≈25 est. | ≈1 in 16K | — | Pruss | 1 |
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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Johann Prüssb. 1447DEGerman book printer active in Strasburg
- Max Prüssb. 1888DEGerman civil engineer and construction director
- Jens Prüssb. 1954DEGerman journalist and author
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 4 sources across 3 countries.
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
- In which country does Prüss have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 996 people named Prüss, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled pruss.
- How common is the name Prüss?
- In the United States, the national register counted 996 people named Prüss 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.
What do you want to know about Prüss?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/pr%C3%BCssThe 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, “Prüss” — the 203rd most common surname in Belize. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.